 | 1848 - Страниц: 744
...well-known General Wade had a house which was designed by Lord Burlington. It was wittily said of it, that it was too small to live in and too large to append to a watch ribbon." This is altogether wrong. The saying is Lord Hervey's, the house, Chuwick,... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - Страниц: 486
...you dwell!" But the facade and colonnade are surely in a fine style. Of Chiswick (which was the Jac simile of an Italian villa) Lord Hervey said, " that...jointly laid out Lady Suffolk's gardens at Marble Hill. * Doctor Arbuthnot. VOL. I. CC and take care of myself. I wish you had as much power with somebody... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 436
...the designs of Mr. Wyatt, and fully remove the objection made by lord Hervey, who said, ' This house was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch.' The gardens are laid out in the Italian style, and display all the beauties of modern planting. The... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - Страниц: 340
...cold in every corner, and a consumption by way of perspective." Lord Harvey's remark is, that " it is too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch ! " I must leave off abruptly, for I hear the carriage announced ; and Lord Marchmont as much objects... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 418
...cold in every corner, and a consumption by way of perspective." Lord Harvey's remark is, that " it is too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch !" I must leave off abruptly, for I hear the carriage announced ; and Lord Marchmont as much objects... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - Страниц: 474
...well-known General Wade had a house, which was designed by Lord Burlington. It was wittily said of it, that it was too small to live in, and too large to append to a watch-ribbon ; indeed, so inconvenient was its interior, and so * Biog. Brit. Art. Gay.... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - Страниц: 448
...been telling, That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch.. Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house—and there died... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - Страниц: 614
...been telling, That 't is a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch." Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house — and there... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - Страниц: 486
...That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it wa» too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch. Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house — and there... | |
 | Gervase Wheeler - 1855 - Страниц: 488
...small villa like that of the Duke of Devonshire — which Horace Walpole found fault with, as being " too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch-chain," though the caustic writer afterwards exhibited in his own "Strawberry Hill" how much... | |
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that it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch;" and more sober critics have pronounced it ill suited to our climate or modes of life. 
