 ... This place 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,...  Notes and Queries - Seite 1391886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1755 - 318 Seiten
...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 - 736 Seiten
...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 not lie. I, in return, with Sincerity admire them, and have about me as many beauties, as take up all my hours of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 546 Seiten
...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,...them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and no disgrace attends me from sixty-seven years of age. Within doors we... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 448 Seiten
...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,...them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and no disgrace attends me from 67 years of age. Within doors we come a little... | |
 | 1825 - 806 Seiten
...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 - 724 Seiten
...— My 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...in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties round me to fill up all my hours of dangling, and no disgrace attends me from sixly-seven years of... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 436 Seiten
...This place affords no news, no subject of amusement and entertainment to fine men. My flatterers are mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem...manor. They cannot deceive; they will not lie. I, in return, with sincerity admire them ; and have as many beauties about me, as fill up all my hours of... | |
 | 1825 - 810 Seiten
...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 - 366 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 Seiten
...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... | |
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