 | History - 1764 - 552 pages
...firft houfe hat a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is, to me, a thinc very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers,...commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the the firft being of panted glafs ; they feldom build above two ftories, each of which has galleries.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1764 - 582 pages
...firft houfe hat a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is, to me, a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers,...commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the the firft being of painted glafs ; they feldom build above two ilories, each of which has galleries.... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1767 - 612 pages
...The nrft houfe has a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is, to me, a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the, chambers,...commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the firft being of painted glafs: they feldom build above two flories, each pf which has galleries. Tietoair*... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1779 - 260 pages
...The Jirft houfe has a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is to me a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers,...commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the firft being of painted glafs; they feldom build above two ftories, each of which has galleries. The... | |
 | Mary Wortley Montagu - 1779 - 328 pages
...it, and open galleries all round it, which is, to me, a thing ( rt5 ) Vety agreeable. This gallefy leads to all the chambers, which are commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the firft being of painted glafs; they feldom build above two rtories, each of which has galleries. The... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1784 - 240 pages
...fifft houfe has a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is, to me, a thing very chambers, which are commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the firft being of painted glafs ; they feldom build above two ftories, each of which has galleries. The... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1790 - 404 pages
...The firft houfe has a large court before it , and open galleries all round it, which is to me a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers, which are commonly large, and with two VOL. H. L rows •rows of windows , the firft being of painted glufs; they feldom build above two ftories,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1794 - 300 pages
...The firft houfe has a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is to me a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers,...commonly large, and with two rows of windows, the firft- being of painted glafs ; they feldom build above two flories, each of which has galleries..... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1796 - 468 pages
...first house has a large court before it , and open galleries all round it , which is , to me , a thmg very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers...to the lord , and the adjoining one is called the Haraui , that is, the ladies' apartment, (for lhe name of seraglio is peculiar to the Grand Signior)... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...which is to me a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to all the chambers, which are co'nmonly large, and with two rows of windows, the first being...belonging to the lord, and the adjoining one is called the /<«/•««/, that is, the ladies' apartment (for the name of seraglio is peculiar lo the grand signior)... | |
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Every house, great and small, is divided into two distinct parts, which only join together by a narrow passage. The first house has a large court before it, and open galleries all round it, which is to me a thing very agreeable. This gallery leads to... 
