 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1803 - 662 pages
...modern convenience was excluded. His drawing• Warner'j Walk through the Weitera Countio, p. 140. drawing-room was a miserable bed-chamber, with walls...and the yellow time-worn bed on which some of them perhaps were obliged to sit instead of a sofa. His sermons abounded with Latin and Greek quotations,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1803 - 716 pages
...description can •exceed : every article of modern convenience was excluded. Hi* drawingdrawing-room was a miserable bed-chamber, with walls that once...and the yellow time-worn bed on which some of them perhaps were obliged to sit instead of a sofa. His sermons abounded with Latin and Greek quotations,... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1816 - 746 pages
...simplicity. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his calces, and entertained his guests at the same lime ; who forgot in the charms of his conversation, the wretched apartment they lucre in, and the yellow time-worn bed on which some of themieere perhaps obliged to sit instead of... | |
 | Henry Edmund Carrington - Devonport (England) - 1843 - 364 pages
...opposition to their simplicity. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his cakes, and entertained hisguests at the same time, who forgot in the charms of his...and the yellow time-worn bed on which some of them, perhaps, were obliged to sit instead of a sofa. His sermons abounded with Latin and Greek quotations,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 272 pages
...had been once •whitewashed. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his cakes, and entertained his guest at the same time; who forgot, in the charms of his...conversation, the wretched apartment they were in, and the time-worn bed on which they were seated, for want of chairs and sofas. It does not appear that this... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 pages
...had been once whitewashed. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his cakes, and entertained his guest at the same time ; who forgot, in the charms of his...conversation, the wretched apartment they were in, and the time-worn bed on which they were seated, for want of chairs and sofas. It does not appear that this... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...opposition to their simplicity. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his cakes, and entertained his guests ut the same time, who forgot in the charms of his conversation...were perhaps obliged to sit instead of a sofa."* His wife died in 1777, and is buried in the north aisle of the church, where may be seen a stone with a... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1880 - 388 pages
...cakes, and entertained hia guests at the ваше time; who forgot in the charms of his convereation the wretched apartment they were in, and the yellow, time-worn bed on which some of them wore perhaps obliged to sit instead of a sofa.* Hie wife died in 1777, and is buried in the north aisle... | |
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Countio, p. 140. drawing-room was a miserable bed-chamber, with walls that once Were white-washed, and where nothing appeared in opposition to their simplicity. Here he boiled his coffee, toasted his cakes, and entertained his guests... 