 There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist ditty, that are incomparable, and the best names that ever were composed. I can say it by heart, though a quarto,...  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Page 507by Horace Walpole - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape,painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a methodist...incomparable, and the best names that ever were composed. J can say it by heart, though a quarto, and if I had time would write it you down; for it is not yet... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a methodist...incomparable, and the best names that ever were composed. 1 can say it by heart, though a quarto, and if I had time would write it you down ; for it is not yet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...but so much wit, so much humour, fun aod poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and If I had time would write it you down ; for It b at . 31. OUTCRY AGAINST DON JUAN. Betty, hearken ; ' — take up, in short, Pope, Prior, Congreve,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted la1vns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had. There are two volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will not amuse you less in another way, though... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had. There are two volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will not amuse you less in another way, though... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had. There are two volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will b By Christopher Anstey. This production... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...without laughing. There is a description of a milliner's box in all the terms of landscape, painted lawns and chequered shades, a Moravian ode, and a Methodist...is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had. There are two volumes, too, of Swift's Correspondence, that will b By Christopher Anstey. Tins production... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...much humor, fun, and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and, if I had lime, would write it you down ; for it is not yet reprinted, and not one to be had." Gray commended it toWharton, and Smollett wrote his Humphrey Clinker (the last and best of his works)... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...but so much wit, so much humour, fun and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and If I had time would write It you down ; for It is not JET. 31. OUTCRY AGAINST DON JUAN. 429 Betty, hearken ; ' — take up, in short, Pope, Prior, Congreve,... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...but so much wit, so much humor, fun, and poetry, never met together before. I can say it by heart, and, if I had time, would write it you down ; for it is not yet re-printed, and not one to be had." Gray commended it to Wharton, and Smollett wrote his Humphrey Clinker (the last and best of his works)... | |
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