 | 1831 - 372 pàgines
...Like most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some persons, as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant...conceits, jumbled together without propriety or meaning." — In the year 1805, Mr. flope published his drawings in a folio volume, entitled " Household Furniture... | |
 | 1831 - 740 pàgines
...Like most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some persons, as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant refinements which wealth placed at bis command; whilst others caricatured (he system, by cramming their apartments with mythological figures... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pàgines
...most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some' persons — ns if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant...conceits, jumbled together without propriety or meaning." Mr. Hope was, in all respects, a munificent patron of art and of artists, and even of the humbler mechanic... | |
 | 1832 - 520 pàgines
...most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some' persons — as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant...conceits, jumbled together without propriety or meaning." Mr. Hope was, in all respects, a munificent patron of art and of artists, and even of the humbler mechanic... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 558 pàgines
...most other innovation«, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some persons — as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant...placed at his command : whilst others caricatured tbfceystem, by cramming their apartments with mythological figures and conceits, jumbled together without... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 610 pàgines
...some persons, as if it were unbecoming a man of fortune to indulge in the elegant refinements that wealth placed at his command ; whilst others caricatured...conceits, jumbled together without propriety or meaning." Those who are familiar with the town and country houses of the late Mr. Hope, in Uuchess Street, London,... | |
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we are indebted, in an eminent degree, for the classical and appropriate style which now generally characterises our furniture and domestic utensils. Like most other innovations, his was described as whimsical and puerile by some' persons — as if it... 