| 1799 - 730 sidor
...am fare I fee a friend!" The torrent divided and (hrunk to either fide; " and as I came away," faid my mother, " I might have walked over their heads, if I had pleafed." Vol. V confifts entirely of letters. The firft is addreffed to the fcon. Henry Seymour Conway,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1818 - 134 sidor
...gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands : my mother amongst the rest, who, sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known;...might have walked over their heads, if I had pleased." The pre-occupation of the queen in favour * It was the town residence of the Sidneys, earls of Leicester,... | |
| 1821 - 464 sidor
...gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands : my mother amongst the rest, who, sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known,...might have walked over their heads, if I had pleased." The pre-occupation of the queen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered, that... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 sidor
...sure I see a friend' — the torrent divided and shrunk to either side, ' and, as I came away Csaid my mother,) I might have walked over their heads if I had pleased!' " * In that entertaining work, the Reverie, written by the author of the Adventures of a Guinea, there... | |
| George Moir - 1827 - 466 sidor
...gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands : my mother amongst the rest, who, Sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known,...might have walked over their heads, if I had pleased." The pre-occnpation of the Queen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered, that... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1830 - 356 sidor
...amongst the rest, who, sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known, conld not make her way between the scornful backs and elbows...might have walked over their heads, if I had pleased." The pre-occupation of the queen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered, that... | |
| 462 sidor
...and gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands, my mother among the rest, who, Sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation being known,...might have walked over their heads if I had pleased.' " was maintained. Sir Robert did not sit down to table with his royal guest, but " stood behind her... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 sidor
...gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands; my mother amongst the rest, who, Sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known,...might have walked over their heads if I had pleased." The preoccupation of the Queen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered that,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 sidor
...gentry in town crowded to kiss their hands; my mother amongst the rest, who, Sir Spencer Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known,...might have walked over their heads if I had pleased." The preoccupation of the Queen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered that,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 sidor
...evaporation, being known, could not make her way between the scornful backs and elbows of her late devotces, nor could approach nearer to the Queen than the third...might have walked over their heads if I had pleased." The preoccupation of the Qucen in favour of Walpole must be explained. He had early discovered that,... | |
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