 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1805 - 296 pages
...and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution...great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every thing when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champaigne ; and I am persuaded he has... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...reason to do so ; the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every thing when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champaigne; and lam persuaded he has known... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...reason to do so ; the highest of his preferment heing raking in-. the lowest sinks of vice and misery. His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every thing when he was hefore a venison pasty, or over a flask of champaigne; and I am persuaded he has... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...May, 1757. f Augustus earl of Berkeley died Jan. 9, 1755, and left two sons and two daughters. turnal weddings. His happy constitution .(even when he had,...great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every thing when he was before a venison pasty, pr over a flask of champaigne, and I am persuaded he has... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment, to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution...he was before a venison-pasty, or over a flask of champaign ; and I am persuaded, he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. His natural... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nanseous employment to be one of the staffofficers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution...great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every thing when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champaigne, and I am persuaded he has... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution (even when he bad, with great pains, half demolished it,) made him forget...he was before a venison-pasty, or over a flask of champaign ; and I am persuaded, he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. His natural... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution...or over a flask of champagne ; and, I am persuaded, he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. His natural spirits gave him rapture with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution ( even when he had, with great pains, half demo* lished it,) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison-pasty, or over a flask of... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...extolling ' the animal spirits that gave him rapture with bis cook-maid' — ' the happy constitution that (even when he had with great pains half demolished...it) made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of Champagne' — he will perhaps come to her ladyship's conclusion that,... | |
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His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. 
