 | English essays - 1834 - 724 pages
...historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the Castle when finished, will have two and thirty windows enriched with painted glass. In this closet,...presses with books of heraldry and antiquities, Madame SevignC's letters, and a French book that relates to her and her acquaintance. Out of this closet,... | |
 | English essays - 1842 - 756 pages
...first thing I asked Harry Gower, Lady Caroline Egerton, Lady was, ' Does the sun shine ?' It did. And Mr. Chute's college of arms, are two presses with books of heraldry and antiquities, Madame Sevign^'s letter, and many French books that relate to his and her acquaintance. Out of this closet,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 366 pages
...prints " — or in the " charming closet hung with green paper, and water-colour pictures " — or in " the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons" — that we fancy him writing to Montagu, Mann, Chute, and Con way, in the days when " we pique ourselves... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...prints" — or in the " charming closet hung with green paper, and water-colour pictures " — or in " the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons" — that we fancy him writing to Montagu, Mann, Chute, and Conway, in the days when " we pique ourselves... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the castle, when finished, will have two-and-thirty windows enriched with painted glass. In this closet,...that relate to her and her acquaintance. Out of this eloset is the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes adorned with festoons,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 554 pages
...historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the castle, when finished, will have two-and-thirty windows enriched with painted glass. In this closet,...presses with books of heraldry and antiquities, Madame Sevign^'s Letters, and any French books that relate to her and her acquaintance. Out of this closet... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the castle, when finished, will have two-and-thirty windows enriched with painted glass. In this closet, which is Mr. Chute's College of Arms, arc two presses with books of heraldry and antiquities, Madame Sevigne's Letters, and any French books... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 498 pages
...in a " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints," or " in the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons." It would be easy to laugh at Walpole's notions of the Gothic and of house-decoration ; crocodile's... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...in a " little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper, and Jackson's Venetian prints," or " in the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes, adorned with festoons." It would be easy to laugh at Walpole's notions of the Gothic and of house-decoration; crocodile's tears... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 pages
...historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the castle, when finished, will have two and thirty windows enriched with painted glass. In this closet,...presses with books of heraldry and antiquities, Madame S^vign6's Letters, and any French books that relate to her and her acquaintance. Out of this closet... | |
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... to the garden, the other to the beautiful prospect ; and the top of each glutted with the richest painted glass of the arms of England, crimson roses, and twenty other pieces of green, purple, and historic bits. I must tell you, by the way, that the... 
