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. 149авторы: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 416Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Henry Spackman Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly - 1910 - Страниц: 564
...weak tea and feminine adulation. Fielding, according to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "forgot everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne." Yet, in spite of his debts, his extravagance, and the dash of the Bohemian in his youth,... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1915 - Страниц: 414
...with a "happy constitution";1 and even when he had become a chronic invalid, could "forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne";1 but he had, also, that unselfish love of humanity which leads a man to give up his life... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 458
...nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every109 thing when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 470
...nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. 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... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 472
...nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. 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... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - Страниц: 460
...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. His natural... | |
| 1921 - Страниц: 612
...affectionate reminiscences, in which she described her merry cousin as ready to "forget everything when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne," are not let pass without the comment that "she trusted too much to hearsay." (iii, 110).... | |
| J. Prinsen - 1925 - Страниц: 558
...nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staftofficers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. 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... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1925 - Страниц: 464
...more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so. ... His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pastry, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded he... | |
| Frederic Thomas Blanchard - 1926 - Страниц: 710
...when she knew anything at first hand of his career — she thus accounts for her cousin's fortitude: "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." In the Voyage, Fielding... | |
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