 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...sermon!—You have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book"—'Tis very silly!—Palmyra is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...of charming, that there is started up a burletta at Covent-garden, that has half the vogue of the old Beggar's opera: indeed, there is a soubrette, called... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...You have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book12 — 'Tis very silly! — Palmyra is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...of charming, that there is started up a burletta at Covent-garden, that has half the vogue of the old Beggar's opera : indeed, there is a soubrette, called... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...—You have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book'—'tis very silly !—Palmyra' is come forth, and is a noble book; the prints finely...of charming, that there is started up a burletta at Co vent Garden, that has half the vogue of the old Beggar's Opera : indeed there is a soubrctte, called... | |
 | 1864 - 644 pages
...do with it. Ancient Visconti does so much with hers that it is intolerable. . . . The Opera succeeds pretty well ; and music has so much recovered its...of charming that there is started up a burletta at Covent Garden that has half the vogue of tho old " Beggar's Opera ;" indeed, thero is a soubrette called... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1864 - 696 pages
...does so much with hers that it is intolerable. . . . The Opera succeeds pretty well ; and music hae so much recovered its power of charming that there is started up a burletta at Covent Garden that has half the vogue of the old " Beggar's Opera ;" indeed, there is a soubrette called... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1891 - 578 pages
...You have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book' — 'tis very silly ! — Palmyra* is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...dissertation before it, My wonder is much abated : the Palmyreno empire which I had figured, shrunk to a small trading city with some magnificent public buildings... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1900 - 438 pages
...The author of "The Ruins of Palmyra," Robert Wood. Walpole writes, December 19th, 1753: " ' Palmyra' is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...engraved, and an admirable dissertation before it. " Again in 1758 he writes : " ' The Palmyra ' and Balbec are noble works to be undertaken and executed... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 488 pages
...have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book 12 — 'tis very silly ! — Palmyra " is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...recovered its power of charming, that there is started up 6 Miss Berry states that Mr. Clarendon. Shorter's Swiss servant was sus- '" Sackville Tnfton, seventh... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1906 - 592 pages
...You have not been much more diverted, I fear, with Hogarth's book' — 'tis very silly ! — Palmyra4 is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely...of charming, that there is started up a burletta at Covent Garden, that has half the vogue of the old Beggar's Opera : indeed there is a soubrette, called... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1909 - 478 pages
...The author of "The Ruins of Palmyra," Robert Wood. Walpole writes, December 19th, 1753: '"Palmyra" is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely engraved, and an admirable dissertation beforeit." Again in 1758 he writes : "' The Palmyra ' and Balbec are noble works to be undertaken and... | |
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Palmyra4 is come forth, and is a noble book ; the prints finely engraved, and an admirable dissertation before it. My wonder is much abated : the Palmyrene empire which I had figured, shrunk to a small trading city with some magnificent public buildings... 
