 it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe. I have not seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they anything green but their treillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fireshovels, and stuck into pedestals of chalk, compose their country....  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Page 461by Horace Walpole - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 524 pages
...city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest, beastly town in the-universe. I have not seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they any thing green but their treillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fire-shovels, and stuck into... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were : it is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe....seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they any thing green but their treillage and windowshutters. Trees cut into fire-shovels, and stuck into... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were : it is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe....seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they any thing green but their treillage and windowshutters. Trees cut into fire-shovels, and stuck into... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe....knowledge of society is reduced to talking of their suppers, and every malady they have about them, or know of. The Dauphin is at the point of death; every... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe....seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they any thing green but their treillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fire-shovels, and stuck into... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe....seen a mouthful of verdure out of it, nor have they any thing green but their treillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fire-shovels, and stuck into... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 596 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself I cannot conceive where my eyes were; it is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe....knowledge of society is reduced to talking of their suppers, and every malady they have about them, or know of."* Among the celebrated characters who were... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were : it is the ugliest beastliest town in the universe....out of it, nor have they anything green but their trcillage and window-shutters. Trees cut into fireshovels, and stuck into pedestals of chalk, compose... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 362 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe....nor have they anything green but their treillage and window shutters. . . . Their boasted knowledge of society is reduced to talking of their suppers, and... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pages
...would keep me an hour on their own account. For the city itself, I cannot conceive where my eyes were: it is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe....nor have they anything green but their treillage and window shutters. . . . Their boasted knowledge of society is reduced to talking of their suppers, and... | |
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