 This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches,...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Seite 68von Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1755 - 318 Seiten
...Flatterers here are all Mutes. The Oaks, the Beeches, and Chefnuts feerri to contend which (hall beft pleafe the Lord of 'the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. 1, in return, with Sincerity admire them,, and have about me as many Beauties as take up' all my Hours... | |
 | 1762 - 736 Seiten
...of the inanimate world. The oaks, the beeches, and chefnuts feem to contend which mail belt pleafe the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I, in return, with Sincerity admire them, and have about me as many beauties, as take up all my hours... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 546 Seiten
...understand not the language, and taste not the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 448 Seiten
...the illstand not the language, and taste not the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | 1825 - 806 Seiten
..." You are alluding to Walpole,' said Tremaine. " ' I am, nnd to his celebrated letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. " My...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'* " 'I will not be bound,' cried Tremaine, ' by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | 1818 - 724 Seiten
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaki, the beeches, and the chesnuts, contend which of them shall best, please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive — they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties round me to fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 436 Seiten
...men. My flatterers are mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend, which shall best please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive; they will not lie. I, in return, with sincerity admire them ; and have as many beauties about me, as fill up all my hours... | |
 | 1825 - 810 Seiten
...You are alluding to Walpole,' said Tremaine. " • I am, and to his celebrated letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. " My...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'* " 'I will not be bound,' cried Tremaine, * by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 Seiten
...letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. ' My flatterers here,' says he, ' arc all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'"* " I will not be bound," cried Tremaine, " by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 654 Seiten
...under his banishment from court, that he said " My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks and beeches seem to contend which best shall please the lord of...manor — they cannot deceive, they will not lie." He died in 1745, in his seventy-first year. Mr. Cox refutes the idea that sir Robert had said, "that... | |
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