 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pàgines
...to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his countryhall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm. * Arbuthnot knew Bolingbroke better. The Doctor's son, Mr. George Arbuthnot, informed Dr. Beattie,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pàgines
...that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." What Pope here says of his engagements with a painter, was shortly after executed : the hall was painted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pàgines
...overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." What Pope here says of his engagements with a painter, was shortly after executed ; the hall was painted... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pàgines
...to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." Such scenes, coupled with Swift's description of his own familiarity with Ministers of State, and added... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 pàgines
...to tell yon, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200/. to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." " I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; bat... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pàgines
...to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other...merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." Such scenes, coupled with Swift's description of his own familiarity with Ministers of State, and added... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 pàgines
...overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall, with rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." What Pope here says of his engagements with a painter, was shortly after executed : the hall was paiuted... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pàgines
...overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for £200 to paint his country hall with trophies «if rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a tkrm." Such scenes, coupled with Swift's deserip tion of his own familiarity with Ministers of State,... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pàgines
...to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 20(W. to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his rolling this place a farm." The design was carried into effect ; the hall was painted in black crayons,... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pàgines
...overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200/. to paint his country hall with trophies of ricks, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm.' Bolingbroke anxious for bis hay, may be paralleled by Fox in the Louvre considering whether the weather... | |
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I can answer that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl. Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with... 
