 With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.  Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pagina 89door Sydney Smith - 1856 - 458 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 606 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 702 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1916 - 428 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. "With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 590 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied Lady Holland 441 learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved... | |
 | Eric Reginald Pearce Vincent - 1953 - 280 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pagina’s
...paintings, the carvings, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber in which all...learning of many lands and many ages ; those portraits in 172 173 which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations. They... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings; the carving, Üie grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable...wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They »ill recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841 - 564 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings; the carving, thegrotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes — With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable...that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many... | |
 | 1867 - 818 pagina’s
...chiffoniers with bric-d-brac. There is nothing to recall the " antique gravity of a college library, no shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages ; " but on the table you •will find Miss Braddon's last novel. Nothing is wanting that upholstery,... | |
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