 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - English fiction - 1899 - 360 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished ; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...rest of the evening. As for the orchestra, the vocal musio especially, it is well for the performers that they cannot be heard distinctly. This is comedy... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 680 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished ; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...executed, without any unity of design, or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, or be distinguished ; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry ornaments, ill-conceived and poorly executed, without any unity of design, or propriety of disposition. It is... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 514 pages
...Squire felt in duty bound to take his young people, drew from the good man the following comments: "Vauxhall is a composition of baubles, overcharged...executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. The walks are filled with crowds of noisy people, sucking up the nocturnal rheums of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half arc drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...a composition of baubles, overcharged with paltry oirmments, ill conceived, and poorly executed, without any unity of design, or propriety of disposition.... | |
 | Peter Warlock - Ballads, English - 1925 - 108 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...executed, without any unity of design or propriety of disposition. It is an unnatural assemblage of objects, fantastically illuminated in broken masses;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1925 - 286 pages
...where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine...rest of the evening. As for the orchestra, the vocal musick especially, it is well for the performers that they cannot he heard distinctly. Vauxhall is... | |
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What are the amusements at Ranelagh ? One half of the company are following one another's tails, in an eternal circle, like so many blind asses in an olive-mill, where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be distinguished ; while the other half... 
