 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...master-piece. But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity: just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains of the same: a small corner-cupboard, painted, carved and gilt, for books, in one corner, and two troughs of a bird-cage,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...master-piece. But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity : just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains of the same ; a small corner-cupboard, painted, carved and gilt, for books, in one corner, and two troughs of a bird-cage,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...masterpiece. But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity : just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains...two troughs of a bird-cage, with seeds and water. If any mayoress on earth was small enough to enclose herself in this tabernacle, or abstemious enough... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 546 pages
...to feed on rape and canary, I should have sworn that it was the shrine of the queen of the aldermen. It belongs to a Mrs. Cotton, who, having lost a favourite daughter, is convinced her soul is transmigrated into a robin-redbreast; for which reason she passes her life in making an... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...WALPOUB, Letters, vol. ip 313) which beats all antiquities for curiosity. Just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains...two troughs of a bird-cage, with seeds and water. If any mayoress on earth was small enough to enclose herself in this tabernacle, or abstemious enough... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...WALPOLE, Letters, vol. ip 313) which beats all antiquities for curiosity. Just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains...two troughs of a bird-cage, with seeds and water. If any mayoress on earth was small enough to enclose herself in this tabernacle, or abstemious enough... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 796 pages
...to feed on rape and canary, I should have sworn that it was the shrine of the queen of the aldermen. It belongs to a Mrs. Cotton, who having lost a favourite daughter, is convinced her soul is transmigrated into a robin-redbreast ; for which reason she passes her life in making an... | |
 | Church architecture - 1854 - 450 pages
...— ' But here is a modernity which beats all antiquities for curiosity : just by the high altar is a small pew,~ hung with green damask, with curtains...favourite daughter, is convinced that her soul is transmigrated into a robin redbreast ; for which reason she passes her life in making an aviary of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...masterpiece. But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity : just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains...two troughs of a bird-cage, with seeds and water. If any mayoress on earth was small enough to enclose herself in this tabernacle, or abstemious enough... | |
 | William John Pinks - England - 1860 - 156 pages
...modernity," writes Walpole, in 1753, "which beats all antiquities for curiosity. Just by the high altar is a small pew, hung with green damask, with curtains...one corner ; and two troughs of a bird-cage, with seed and water. It belongs to a Mrs. Cotton, who, having lost a favourite daughter, is convinced her... | |
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But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity : just by the high altar is a small pew hung with green damask, with curtains of the same ; a small corner cupboard, painted, carved and gilt, for books, in one corner, and two troughs... 
