 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation-dinner in greens^ where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other. — Pope. DCCLXXIX. Irregularity in vision, together with such enormities, as tipping the wink, the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation-dinner in greens; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.—Pope. DCCLXXIX. Irregularity in vision, together with such enormities, as tipping the wink,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual...benefit of all my loving countrymen of this curious taste, I shall here publish a catalogue of greens to be disposed of by an eminent town gardener, who... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1838 - 388 pàgines
...seat with a coronation dinner of greens, where you see the champion, &c., flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other." (Guardian, No. 178.) There was at least meaning in the cook's madness, but what the grotesque figures... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation dinner in greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other." He then enumerates some of the handiwork of a virtuoso gardener, in whom a love of sculpture was apparent,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pàgines
...country-seat with a coronation-dinner in greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual...benefit of all my loving countrymen of this curious taste, I shall here publish a catalogue of greens to be disposed of by an eminent town-gardener, who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...country-seat with a coronation dinner in greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at the end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other." But it was the vigorous and creative imagination of Milton, superior to the prejudices of his time,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation dinner in greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other. places from the mere barbarous countries of gross nature, the world stands much in need of a virtuoso... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 pàgines
...country-seat with a coronation dinner in greens, where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other." In the manner of Addison he gave a humorous catalogue of these monstrosities — such as Adam and Eve... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pàgines
...country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the Champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table and the Queen in perpetual youth at the other." When the desire to subject nature to art had been carried to the ludicrous extravagances so well satirized... | |
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I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other. 
