His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Стр. 207авторы: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 416Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 472
...demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments...rapture with his cook-maid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing in a garret. There was a great similitude between his character and that of Sir Richard Steele.... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 470
...demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments...rapture with his cook-maid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing in a garret. There was a great similitude between his character and that of Sir Richard Steele.... | |
| J. Prinsen - 1925 - Страниц: 558
...demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments...with his cook«maid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing in a garret. There was a great similitude between his character and that of Sir Richard Steele.... | |
| Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - Страниц: 714
...second marriage, of which she could know nothing except from hearsay, is clearly mirrored in the words: "His natural spirits gave him rapture with his cook-maid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing in a garret."40 In those early days, when Fielding was having such a hard struggle to make... | |
| Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - Страниц: 710
...atonement by doing justice to his frank, free, hearty nature, where she says 'his spirits gave him raptures with his cookmaid, and cheerfulness when he was starving in a garret, and his happy constitution made him forget every thing when he 10 The Quarterly Review, XIX, 127. 16... | |
| Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - Страниц: 544
...atonement by doing justice to his frank, free, hearty nature, where she says "his spirits gave him raptures with his cook-maid, and cheerfulness when he was starving in a garret, and his happy constitution made him forget everything when he was placed before a venison-pasty or... | |
| James O'Donnell Bennett - 1928 - Страниц: 488
...time, wrote "Ne plus ultra," and when her cousin died she wrote to her daughter, the Countess of Bute, "I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth." Aye, and given more! XXXV THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (Translated and adapted partly from Roman-Catholic... | |
| 1856 - Страниц: 596
...demolished it, made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of Champagne, and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments...and cheerfulness when he was starving in a garret.' Dinners are ' good cheer ' to him, in its literal sense. Fortune sent him a buck, and his favourite... | |
| K. G. Simpson - 1985 - Страниц: 220
...everything when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne, and I am persuaded he had known more happy moments than any prince upon earth....rapture with his cookmaid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing [undergoing medical treatment] in a garret. There was a great similitude between his character... | |
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