 ... 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,...  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith.. - Seite 67von Oliver Goldsmith - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 486 Seiten
...him yesterday agree with a painter for 2001. to paint • his country hall with trophies of rakers, spades, 'prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over anew leaf. — He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not t<^ have more schemes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 480 Seiten
...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.— The Dunciad is going to be printed in all pomp, with the inscription,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 946 Seiten
...with a painter for 200/. to paint his coun3 try. UAKI.INGTO?* CHURCH POXCIf, 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... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 944 Seiten
...to paint bis coun 1IMU.WOTOH I-HVRCH PO34CH. try-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, 8cc. 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 Unmet family, and was a fine... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 Seiten
...I overheard him yesterday agree with a Painter for 200/. 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 Roscoe - 1824 - 602 Seiten
...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 - 1824 - 596 Seiten
...I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ 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 Roscoe - 1824 - 628 Seiten
...barn-door fowl. him yesterday agree with a painter for 200/. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 Seiten
...agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with rakes, spades, prongs, etc. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling...figures often seen scratched with charcoal, or the smoke of a candle, upon the kitchen walls of farm-houses. The whole, however, produced a most striking... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 Seiten
...that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments,...accordingly in black crayons only, so that at first yiew it brought to mind the figures often seen scratched with charcoal, or the smoke of a candle, upon... | |
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