 No old maid's gown, though it had been tormented into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented with tending a visionary flock, and sighing some...  The Wits and Beaus of Society - Σελίδα 7των Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 σελίδες
...match at cricket, but wandered through the playing-fields, tending a visionary flock, and sighing out some pastoral name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge which crosses Chalvey Brook." An avenue of limes among the elms is still named " The Poet's Walk,"... | |
 | Lionel Cust - 1899 - 434 σελίδες
...into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented...name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge. How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom only for the pleasure of being driven from it and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 σελίδες
...into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented...name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge. How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom, only for the pleasure of being driven from it and... | |
 | Lionel Cust - 1899 - 442 σελίδες
...had a kingdom only for the pleasure of being driven from it and living disguised in an humble vale ! As I got further into Virgil and Clelia, I found myself...the garden of Italy ; and saw Windsor Castle in no other view than the Capitoll immobile saxum. I wish a committee of the House of Commons may ever seem... | |
 | 1900 - 674 σελίδες
...; but they wandered through the playing-fields at Eton tending a visionary flock, and " sighing out some pastoral name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge " which spans Chalvey Brook. An avenue of lime among the elms is still named the " Poet's Walk," and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1890 - 450 σελίδες
...into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented...name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge. How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom, only for the pleasure of being driven from it and... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 σελίδες
...; but they wandered through the playing-fields nt Eton tending a visionary flock, and " sighing out some pastoral name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge " which spans Chalvey Brook. An avenue of lime among the elms is still named the " Poet's Walk," and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1903 - 470 σελίδες
...into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented...name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge. How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom only for the pleasure of being driven from it, and... | |
 | Christopher Stone, Edith Danvers Brinton - 1909 - 282 σελίδες
...those readers who scoff at such a reminiscence of Sheep's Bridge in the playing-fields as this : — "At first I was contented with tending a visionary...name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge." Of the Quadruple Alliance the other members were West, who went to Oxford and died young ; Thomas Ashton,... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - 1911 - 398 σελίδες
...the playing fields musing, he retained the recollection all his life. "No old maid's gown," said he, "though it had been tormented into all the fashions...the garden of Italy ; and saw Windsor Castle in no other view than the Capitoli immobile saxum." In Horace Walpole's day Kendall, himself an old Etonian,... | |
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