 | Daniel Lysons - 1800 - 386 páginas
...yefterday agree with a painter for 200 l. to paint his " country hall with trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other " ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm '*." editor of the Biographia Britannica obferves, from his own knowledge, that it ivas fo painted... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 páginas
...I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 2001. to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf.— He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not to have more schemes... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 924 páginas
...for 200/. to paint his coun. 3 try OH CUUKCH POKCH, Miikllcwx. MfDDLESF.X. try-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." The mansion in which Lord Bolingbroke lived had long been a seat of the Bennet family, and was a fine... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 páginas
...I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 2001. to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm—now turn over a new leaf.— He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not to have more schemes... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 páginas
...yefterday agree with a Painter for 2oo/. to paint his country-hall * with Trophies of rakes, fpadss, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a Farm — now turn over a new leaf — He bids me allure you, he fhould be forry not to have more fchemes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 540 páginas
...yefterday agree with a Painter for 2oo/. to paint his country-hall * with Trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a Farm — now turn over a new leaf — He bids me allure you, he mould be lorry not ta •have more fchemes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 páginas
...run after his cart, I have a moment " left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yes" terday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, " to...figures often seen scratched with charcoal, or the smoke of a candle, upon the kitchen walls of farmhouses. The whole, however, produced a most striking... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount), Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 486 páginas
...hun" dred pounds, to paint his country-hall with " rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other orna" ments, merely to countenance his calling " this place a Farm."...figures often seen scratched with charcoal, or the smoke of a candle, upon the kitchen wall? of farm-houses. The whole however produced a most striking... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 546 páginas
...hun" dred pounds, to paint his country-hall with " rakes, spades, prongs, £c., and other orna" ments, merely to countenance his calling " this place a Farm."...shortly after executed; the hall was painted accordingly ingly in black crayons only, so that at first view it brought to mind the figures often seen scratched... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 páginas
...I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 2oo/. to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm— now turn over a new leaf — He bids me assure you he should be sorry not to have more schemes of kindness... | |
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... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. " Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes,... 
