 ... affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts,...  All the Year Round - Стр. 4501883Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1755 - Страниц: 318
...Flatterers here are all Mutes. The Oaks, the Beeches, and Chefnuts feerri to contend which (hall beft pleafe the Lord of 'the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. 1, in return, with Sincerity admire them,, and have about me as many Beauties as take up' all my Hours... | |
 | 1762 - Страниц: 736
...of the inanimate world. The oaks, the beeches, and chefnuts feem to contend which mail belt pleafe the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will...many beauties, as take up all my hours of dangling ; and no difgrace attends me fince fixty-feven ». Within doors we come a little to real life, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - Страниц: 546
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - Страниц: 448
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 806
...here," says he, " are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie." I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | 1818 - Страниц: 724
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaki, the beeches, and the chesnuts, contend which of them shall best, please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive — they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties round me to fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - Страниц: 444
...fme men. My flatterers are mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend, which shall best please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive;...I, in return, with sincerity admire them ; and have as many beauties about me, as fill up all my hours of dangling ; and no disgrace attends me from the... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - Страниц: 370
...here,' says he, ' are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.' I quite ..agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 810
...here," says he, " are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie." I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - Страниц: 366
...here,' says he, ' arc all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.' I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the. very hankering after the world, which... | |
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