 | Tom Taylor - 1874 - 495 Seiten
...a rookery, is . more contemplative than this Court; and as a proof of it I need only tell you that Miss Lepel walked with me three or four hours by moonlight,...vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall." Gay has embalmed the enchanting character of Mary Lepel's beauty in one beautiful line — " Youth's... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1875
...more contemplative than this court," and with a touch of pride to make Teresa jealous, " Mrs. Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...any quality but the king, who gave audience to the Vice- Chamberlain, all alone under the garden wall." Why here are all the insinuations of the old story... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 444 Seiten
...the poet's fancy, if it did not affect his heart. " Mrs. Lepell," he once wrote to Teresa Blount, " walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." In 1727 Swift came over again from Ireland, and once more took up his residence with Pope. It was his... | |
 | 1877
...walk, or think— which they please. I can easily believe no lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and,...Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall. Bad as was the Court of the second George, it was a slight improvement upon that of his father, but... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 706 Seiten
...than this court ; and, as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L (Mary Lepell) walked with m* three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature...vice-chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall. * In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset-table, or any place where two or three were gathered... | |
 | 1877
...as a ;TOof of it I need only tell you, Miss Lepel walked with me three or four hours by ooonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave audience to die Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall. Bad as was the Court of the second George,... | |
 | Lucy Cecil Lillie - 1878 - 350 Seiten
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and, as a proof of it, I need only tell you Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight and...any quality but the King, who gave audience to the Vice Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall." But there were merry days to remember at Twickenharn,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 205 Seiten
...with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this court. Miss Lepell walked with me for three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality hut the king, who gave andience to the vice -chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." and what with drinking, and dining, and supping, and cards, wonder how they got through their business... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 819 Seiten
...lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...vice-chamberlain all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our ancestors, than the island which we inhabit. People high... | |
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