I can answer that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl. Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with... The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Сторінка 557автори: John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 500 стор.
...tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf. — He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not to have more schemes... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1884 - 498 стор.
...tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for ^"200, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf. — He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not to have more schemes... | |
| Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 стор.
...to tell you that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for ^200 to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling his place a farm." His lordship, we are told, was happy in possessing " a mind formed for the world... | |
| Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 стор.
...to tell you that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." Bolingbroke was not so enraptured with bucolic joys, but that he found time for an occasional tour... | |
| 1896 - 368 стор.
...agree with a painter for .£200 to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, etc., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." The house is built with brick, and the tops of the windows arched, which had not a good effect with the... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 384 стор.
...yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds to paint his country-hall with rakes, spades, prongs, and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." Bolingbroke, indeed, did his best to persuade his friends and himself that he was completely wedded... | |
| Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 456 стор.
...agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country-hall with Trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, etc., and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm. The scheme of wall painting was carried out in chiaroscuro on stone-colour — similar, it may be believed,... | |
| George Paston - 1909 - 420 стор.
...agree with a painter, for £200, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." Early in September Pope was obliged to undergo a six weeks' cure at Bath, in the hope of patching up... | |
| Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 136 стор.
...to tell you that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf. — He bids me assure you he should be sorry not to have more schemes... | |
| John Archer - 2005 - 512 стор.
...and orchard to provide a pastoral air with which to surround his villa — which in turn he painted "with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling the place a farm."142 As the poem elaborated: See! Emblem of himself, his Villa stand! Politely finish'd,... | |
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