 If you had never seen it I would make you a most pompous description of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes—that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland.  Eighteenth Century Vignettes - Pagina 272door Henry Austin Dobson - 1894Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pagina’s
...of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The company... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 pagina’s
...of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes — you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The company... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 pagina’s
...is so fond of it, that he says "he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. Yon " cannot set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales " or Duke of Cumberland ! " * Our Criminal Law at that period betrays, in its undiscriminating rigour, the spirit of a barbarous... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 pagina’s
...ordered all his letters to be directed thither, and of which the floor is all of beaten princes, for you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or a Duke of Cumberland, — to forego enumeration of less distinguished and "universal" company, from... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 414 pagina’s
...of it that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...how the floor is all of beaten princes ; that you can 't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The company is universal:... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pagina’s
...of it that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...how the floor is all of beaten princes ; that you can 't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland. The company is universal... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1903 - 494 pagina’s
...of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...Grace of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling Hospital-from my Lady Townshend to the kitten- from my Lord Sandys to your humble cousin and sincere... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1906 - 618 pagina’s
...of it, that he says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. If you had never seen it, I would make you a most pompous description of it,...company is universal : there is from his Grace of Qrafton down to children out of the Foundling Hospital — from my Lady Townshend to the kitten —... | |
 | Norman Pearson - 1911 - 532 pagina’s
...constant and enthusiastic visitor. According to him, " Nobody goes anywhere else — everybody goes there. You can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or a Duke of Cumberland. The company is universal : there is from his Grace of Grafton down to children... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1925 - 520 pagina’s
...fond of it that he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither: . . . the floor," he proceeds, "is all of beaten princes — that you can't set your...kitten — from my Lord Sandys to your humble cousin." As at Vauxhall, so at Ranelagh, the arrival on our shores of illustrious foreigners was a signal for... | |
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