 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1796 - 468 pages
...perfume^ or baskets of flowers. But what pleases mo best , is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room , which throw up several spouts of water t giving , at the same time , an agreeable coolness , and a pleasant dashing sound, falling from 0:10... | |
 | Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1816 - 374 pages
...perfume, or baskets of Mowers. But what pleases me best, is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...falling from one basin to another. Some of these are ,yery magnificent. Eachhousehasabagnio, which consists generally of two or three little rooms, leaded... | |
 | Robert Robinson - Baptism - 1817 - 580 pages
...perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...water, giving at the same time an agreeable coolness, a pleasant dashing sound, falling from one bason to another. Some of these are very magnificent. Each... | |
 | Robert Robinson - Baptism - 1817 - 590 pages
...water, giving at the same time an agreeable coolness, a pleasant dashing sound, falling from one bason to another. Some of these are very magnificent. Each...a bagnio, which consists generally in two or three litile rooms leaded on the top, paved with marble, with basons, cocks of water, and all conveniences... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best, is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...the same time an agreeable coolness, and a pleasant clashing sound, falling from one basin to another. Some of these are very magnificent. Each house has... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best, is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...Some of these are very magnificent. Each house has a bagnib,' which consists generally in two or three little rooms, leaded on the top, paved with marble,... | |
 | Robert Sears - Curiosities and wonders - 1856 - 566 pages
...arches to set pots of perfume or baskets of flowers. Marble fountains in the lower part of the room, throw up several spouts of water, giving at the same...an agreeable coolness and a pleasant dashing sound as they fall from one basin to another. Some of these are very magnificent. Each house has a bagnio,... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...of flowers. But what pleases me best, is8 the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part9 of the room, which throw up several spouts of water,...pleasant dashing sound, falling from one basin to another.10 Some of these are very magnificent. Each house has a bagnio, which consists generally in... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1887 - 574 pages
...perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...sound, falling from one basin to another. Some of these fountains are very magnificent. Each house has a bagnio, which is generally two or three little rooms,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1906 - 572 pages
...perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several...sound, falling from one basin to another. Some of these fountains are very magnificent. Each house has a bagnio, which is generally two or three little rooms,... | |
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I think, more conveniently than ours. Between the windows are little arches to set pots of perfume, or baskets of flowers. But what pleases me best, is the fashion of having marble fountains in the lower part of the room, which throw up several spouts... 