 It was a little broken by fishing, and going round the park one of the mornings; but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a spot prevented my...  The Stowe Catalogue: Priced and Annotated - Page xxxixby Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Henry Rumsey Forster - 1848 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 508 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a spot prevented my being tired. 2 Every acre brings to one's mind some instance of the parts or pedantry, of the taste or want of taste,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 506 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a spot prevented my being tired.2 Every acre brings to one's mind some instance of the parts or pedantry, of the taste or want... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a...those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the mob of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a...those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the mob of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 632 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a...those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the mob of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Berkshire (England) - 1872 - 392 pages
...flowering shrubs." " At Stowe," it has been remarked, "every acre brings to one's mind some instances of the parts or pedantry, of the taste or want of taste, of the ambition or love of fame, of greatness or miscarriage, of those who have inhabited, decorated, planned or visited the place —... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1901 - 250 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden make each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a...those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the mob of... | |
 | Alfred Henry Malan - Castles - 1902 - 392 pages
...royal guest. In a letter to George Montague, written on his return to Strawberry Hill, Walpole says : " Every acre brings to one's mind some instance of the...of those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, and visited this place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 472 pages
...but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden made each day different from the rest : and my meditations on so historic...those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place. Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, Lord Cobham, Lord Chesterfield, the mob of... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Great Britain - 1912 - 342 pages
...indicated above: 'The number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden made each day different from the rest; and my meditations on so historic a...Every acre brings to one's mind some instance of the . . . greatness or miscarriages of those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place.... | |
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