 | 1896
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it I need only tell you Mrs. Lepell walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King [George I.], who gave audience to the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.' ' The bard... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 362 Seiten
...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, and we met no creature of any quality but thz King [George I.], who gave audience to the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.'1... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 361 Seiten
...me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King [George I.], who gave audience to the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.' ' The bard of Twickenham was not the only poet who took pleasure in the society of these girlish beauties.... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1897 - 244 Seiten
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it I need only tell you Miss L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...Vice-Chamberlain, all alone under the garden wall." Mr. Alexander Pope was very proud of his neat phrases, for he must needs repeat them next year in a... | |
 | Ernest Law - 1897 - 421 Seiten
...rookery, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you Miss L[epell] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden walk. "In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset table, or any place where two or three were gathered... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898
...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...any quality but the King, who gave audience to the Vice-chamlK'rlaii. all alone under the garden wall." I fancy it was a merrier England, that of our... | |
 | Jerusha D. Richardson ("Mrs. Aubrey Richardson.") - 1899 - 467 Seiten
...than t>enrietta, Countess of Suffolk this court, and as a proof of it, I need only tell you, Mrs. L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...audience to the vice-chamberlain, all alone, under the garden-wall. " In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, bassettable, or any place where two or three... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1900 - 421 Seiten
...rookeiy, is more contemplative than this Court ; and as a proof of it, I need only tell you Miss Lfepell] walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and...the Vice-Chamberlain, all alone, under the garden walk. "In short, I heard of no ball, assembly, basset table, or any place where two or three were gathered... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901
...opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that every woman...Lepel: " ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MISS HOWE. 1 " What is prudery ? — 'Tis a beldam, Seen with wit and beauty seldom, 1 Sophia Howe, maid of honour... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901
...opportunity of conversation with Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was of all things the most miserable, and wished that every woman...Lepel : " ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MISS HOWE.1 " What is prudery ? — Tis a beldam, Seen with wit and beauty seldom, 1 Sophia Howe, maid of... | |
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Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall. 
