 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their wornM out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1892 - 334 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their womout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1892 - 348 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the Twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their worn14 out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 pages
...in particular used to spend many hours by myself h* gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 324 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 362 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...marble with them ; how I never could be tired with 20 roaming about that huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their worn-out hangings, fluttering... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1899 - 184 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out; sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1899 - 216 pages
...hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Csesars, that had been Emperors of Borne, till the old marble heads would seem to live again,...worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding almost rubbed out, — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
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I in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them... 
