 ... china dish, which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp with three pats of butter and a flagon of water, stirring, and rattling, and laughing, and we every minute expecting to have the dish fly about our ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 1621885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 362 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by...conversation was no less lively than the whole transaction." Lady Caroline was not singular in her tastes. Before the accession of George III. it was by no means... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by...conversation was no less lively than the whole transaction." Lady Caroline was not singular in her tastes. Before the accession of George III. it was by no means... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 332 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries, from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by herself at a little table In short, the air of our party was sufficient, as you will easily imagine,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries, from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by herself at a little table. ... In short, the air of our party was sufficient, as you will easily imagine,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1929 - 520 Seiten
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 | John Timbs - 1872
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 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers', and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by...conversation was no less lively than the whole transaction." As fashionable life at this period presented the extremes of effeminacy and rudeness, the happy mean... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 Seiten
...about our ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers and strawberries and cherries, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table." It was on their way home on this memorable night that they " picked up Lord Granby, arrived very drunk... | |
 | 1850 - 346 Seiten
...ears. She had brought Betty the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table. survey the innumerable little lar.es and j courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of | buildings,... | |
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