| Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 páginas
...Ham-walks bound my prospect ; but, thank God! the Thames is between me and the duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers, as plenty as flounders, inhabit all around,...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. He cordially detested the Duke of Newcastle, who was one of his father's opponents and supplanters,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 410 páginas
...resided at this period in a small house in Ham Walks. Walpole, having one day called upon her, and all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." Walpole's memorable art collection — his historic pictures, his marbles, his rare books, his priceless... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...Walks bound my prospects ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. populous, ho . The Scottish Rebellion. Nov. 15, 1745. I told you in my last what disturbance there had been about... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...Walks bound my prospects ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of ^ueensberry. that his written flames had burnt up and withered...his passion, he tells us that one burnt like him The Scottish Rebellion. Nov. 15, 1745. I told you in my last what disturbance there had been about... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 404 páginas
...resided at this period in a small house in Ham Walks. Walpole, having one day called upon her, and all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." Walpole's memorable art collection — his historic pictures, his marbles, his rare books, his priceless... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - 350 páginas
...Walks bound my prospects ; but thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." It is pleasant to sit in the Gothic villa on Strawberry Hill and see the world pass by. The small Euphrates,... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1912 - 356 páginas
...Walks bound my prospects ; but thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around...skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." It is pleasant to sit in the Gothic villa on Strawberry Hill and see the world pass by. The small Euphrates,... | |
| Julian Hill - 1907 - 378 páginas
...again know. When Horace Walpole, three years after Pope's death, settled at Strawberry Hill, he wrote, "Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight." It is ardently to be hoped that this poor spirit does not revisit, in our own day, the spot once so... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...Ham walks bound my prospect; but thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around,...ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most po1 The nucleus of "Strawberry Castle." etical moonlight. I have about land enough to keep such a farm... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...Ham walks bound my prospect; but thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around,...ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most po1 The nucleus of "Strawberry Castle." etical moonlight. I have about land enough to keep such a farm... | |
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