 The lord of the festival* was there, and seemed neither ashamed nor vain of the expense of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on all the sideboards,...  Table Traits with Something on Them - Page 332by Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 489 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night my lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards: I was not there, having... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper, she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night, my lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards: I was not there, having... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper, she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night, my lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards: I was not there, having... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night my Lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards : I was not there, having... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on...sideboards, and even on the chairs, were pyramids and1 troughs of strawberries and cherries ; you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on the sideboards, and even on the chairs, were pyramids...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night my Lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards : I was not there, having... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms and very fine, and on the sideboards, and even on the chairs, were pyramids...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus. Last night my Lady Northumberland lighted up her garden for the Spaniards: I was not there, having... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 492 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms, and very fine; and on...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus." Again, Walpole writes to Marshal Conway, on the 21st of May, 1763, "I do not insist, that to have spirits... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 488 pages
...of his pleasures. At supper she offered him Tokay, and told him she believed he would find it good. The supper was in two rooms, and very fine ; and on all the sideboards, and even on the chairs, \vere pyramids and troughs of strawberries and cherries : you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus."... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...Walpole records of one most aristocratic fete, given by Miss Chudleigh, (Duchess of Kingston,) that " on all the side-boards, and even on the chairs, were...you would have thought she was kept by Vertumnus." The Duchess of Orleans tells us, very pleasantly, in her Mémoires, of having introduced sour crout... | |
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