 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1882
...or think — which way they please. Miss Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave...audience to the Vice-Chamberlain all alone under the gardenwall.' But they could play at high jinks sometimes, and they were somewhat hoydenish in their... | |
 | Barbara Clay Finch - 1883
...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." London was smaller in those times. Such an announcement as the following reads strangely to us of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 642 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 457 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." and what with drinking, and dining, and supping, and cards, wonder how they got through their business... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886
...a rookery, is more contemplative than this court; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L[epel] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight,...audience to the vice-chamberlain, all alone, under the gardenwall.1 In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset-table, or any place where two or three... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886
...a rookery, is more contemplative than this court; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L[epel] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight,...audience to the vice-chamberlain, all alone, under the gardenwall.1 In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset-table, or any place where two or three... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886
...contemplative than this court; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L[epcl] walked Avith me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no...audience to the vice-chamberlain, all alone, under the gardenwall.' In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset-table, or anyplace where two or three were... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 552 Seiten
...is more contemplative than this Court ; and, as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L[epell] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, 1 Author of Purchas Mi Pilgrimage ; or Relations of the World, Ac. ; and of HaMytus Postliumus -. or... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 552 Seiten
...sufficiently characteristic. In the same letter lie rather maliciously tells her, "Mrs. [Miss] Lepcll walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of quality but the King, who gave audience to the ViceChamberlain all alone under the garden wall." '... | |
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