 But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions. I have specified what it contains. Could I describe the gay but tranquil scene where it stands, and add...  The Book of the Boudoir - Page 216by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Eighteenth century - 1818 - 890 pages
...antique statues and fine pictures, beautiful vases and ornamental china, if they had possessed them ? But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions. I have specified what it contains. Could I describe the gay... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1818 - 894 pages
...antique statues and fine pictures, beautiful vases and ornamental china, if they had possessed them ? But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions. I have specified what it contains. Could I describe the gay... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...Greek and Roman sculpture, may seem heterogeneous. In truth I did not mean to make my home so gothicas to exclude convenience and modern luxury. But I do...stands, and add the beauty of the landscape to the romantie cast of the mansion, it would raise more pleasing sensations than a dry list of curiosities... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 548 pages
...antique statues and fine pictures, beautiful vases and ornamental China, if they had possessed them ? — But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions. I have specified what it contains ; could I describe the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 540 pages
...antique statues and fine pictures, beautiful vases and ornamental China, if they had possessed them ? — But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions. I have specified what it * And the mixture may be denominated,... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...fitted up interiors to resemble a cloister or an aisle. Conscious of the fallacy, he breaks off:— ' But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realise my own visions. I have specified what it contains; could I describe the gay... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 608 pages
...fitted up interiors to resemble a cloister or an aisle. Conscious of the fallacy, he breaks off: — ' But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realise my own visions. I have specified what it contains ; could I describe the... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 618 pages
...fitted up interiors to resemble a cloister or an aisle. Conscious of the fallacy, he breaks off: — ' But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to4 please my own taste, and in some degree to realise my own visions. I have specified what it contains... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 444 pages
...fitted up interiors to resemble a cloister or an aisle. Conscious of the fallacy, he breaks off: " But I do not mean to defend by argument a small capricious house. It was built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realise my own visions. I have specified what it contains ; could I describe the... | |
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