 I refrain to quote from Walpole regarding George — for those charming volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them : wax-lights, fine dresses,...  An Anthology of Prose & Verse - 12 psl.autoriai: Austin Dobson - 1922 - 173 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1857 - 202 psl.
...description of the scenes at Richmond Lodge, we are indebted 8to Walpole's letters ; and never was there such a brilliant, jigging, smirking Vanity Fair, as that through which he leads us. About the other authority there was something dark and fearful ; and when many years after Lord Harvey's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 psl.
...OF CITILODEN. hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them ;...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful ; a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them: wax-lights,...smirking "Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 psl.
...gossip of the last century Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all througli them: wax-lights, fine dresses, fine jokes, fine plate,...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 264 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 psl.
...volumes are in the hands of all who love the gossip of the last century. Nothing can be more cheery than Horace's letters. Fiddles sing all through them :...smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us. Hervey, the next great authority, is a darker spirit. About him there is something frightful : a few... | |
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