 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...for a manage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus. Of all the riders of that steed, perhaps there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...his faithful duchess, who was never off her pillion 3. One of the noble historian's finest portraits is of this duke ; the duchess has left another, more... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 468 pages
...for a manage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus. Of all the riders of that steed, perhaps there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...grace and his faithful duchess, who was never off her pillion.3 One of the noble historian's finest portraits is of this duke ; the duchess has left another,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 452 pages
...from the groves of the Cam and Isis.* " Of all the riders of Pegasus," Walpole pleasantly remarks, " there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion." The great services which they had rendered to the royal cause rendered them extremely popular after... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1831 - 656 pages
...for a menage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus. Of all the riders of that steed, perhaps there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...faithful duchess, who was never off her pillion." His grace, who, amongst his other honours, was a KNIGHT of the GARTER, rf. in 1676, and a costly monument... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - English poetry - 1848 - 526 pages
...for a menage, than to mount him up the steps of Parnassus. Of all the riders of that steed, perhaps there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...faithful duchess, who was never off her pillion." Certainly nothing can exceed her or his vanity, except the flattery they bestowed upon one another.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...for a menage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus. Of all the riders of that steed, perhaps there have not been a more fantastic couple than his...his faithful duchess, who was never off her pillion. One of the noble historian's finest portraits is of this duke. The duchess has left another, more diffuse... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1855 - 1026 pages
...for many years after the Restoration. " Of all the riders of Pegasus," says Walpole, " there 'hare not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and...faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion." Pepys notes a visit of Charles II. to her Grace at Newcastle House, in April 1667. Another eccentric... | |
 | John Timbs - Curiosities and wonders - 1855 - 818 pages
...sort of academic court for many years after the Restoration. " Of all the riders of Pegasus," says Walpole, " there Have not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and his faithful Thichess, who was never off her pillion." Pepys notes a visit of Charles H. to her Grace at Newcastle... | |
 | International Exhibition - 1862 - 460 pages
...man of eminent and very various ability, d. 1829. — White marble statue of Mrs. Siddons as Latly Macbeth in the night scene, by Thomas Campbell. —...effect which marriage was said to be the sole object of Harley's tenure of office. — Statue, by Chantrey, of the statesman Canning. — Rysbrack's monument... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - London (England) - 1863 - 450 pages
...light, a man of eminent and very various ability, d. 1829. — White marble statue of Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth in the night scene, by Thomas Campbell....effect which marriage was said to be the sole object of Harley's tenure of office. — Statue, by Chantrey, of the statesman Canning. — Rysbrack's monument... | |
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there have not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and his faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion. 
