 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - Artists - 1861 - 668 pages
...sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such a house,...place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies."1 Mrs. Montagu writes to the Duchess... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1861 - 670 pages
...little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are «re perfectly classic. Well, if I had such a house, such...place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies."1 1 The Cottrells were hereditary Masters... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1861 - 674 pages
...sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such a house, such a library, BO pretty a place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1879 - 492 pages
...little, the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such...place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies." * Mrs. Montagu writes to the Duchess... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1879 - 496 pages
...little, the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such...place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies." l Mrs. Montagu writes to the Duchess... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1891 - 584 pages
...little ; the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such...library, so pretty a place, and so pretty a wife, I tfn'nlr I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies.' Make many compliments... | |
 | Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1892 - 316 pages
...acquired their Lincolnshire estates. Walpole, speaking of their homestead in the last century, says, "Well, if I had such a house, such a library, so pretty a place, so pretty a wife, I think I should let the King send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies."... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 492 pages
...little ; the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are perfectly classic. — Well, if I had...place, and so pretty a wife \ I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies. Make many compliments to all your family... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 486 pages
...little ; the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable ; all the scenes are perfectly classic. — Well, if I had...a library, so pretty a place, and so pretty a wife s, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies. Make many compliments... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1914 - 428 pages
...little; the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and river, imaginable: all the scenes are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such...place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herrenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies. Make many compliments to all your... | |
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... so much taste. The house is old, and was bad ; he has improved it, stuck as close as he could to Gothic, has made a delightful library, and the whole is comfortable. The garden is Daphne in little ; the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes,... 
