 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called Cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighWiring meadow. You will think I have removed my philosophy from Windsor with my tea-things hither;... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 336 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called Cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening, in honour...tranquillity while a parliament is bursting about my ears." The little tenement so playfully described, had already a fine antique cast of character, and was rich... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow. You know it is going to be dissolved: I am told, you are taken care of, though I don't know where, nor... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...glasses. Lord John Saekville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.' " Mr. Walpole having formed a design of enlarging his villa, and fitting it up in the Gothic style,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...Conway, " Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games, called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him, in a neighbouring meadow." It began in the southern counties, but has spread all over the country ; there are now many clubs,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...Conway, " Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games, called cricfeetalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him, in a neighbouring meadow." It began in the southern counties, but has spread all over the country ; there are now many clubs,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predeeessed me here, and instituted certain games called crichetalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.' " Mr. Walpole having formed a design of enlarging his villa, and fitting it up in the Gothic style,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called Cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow."* To this place, though so small and inconvenient, the purchaser could easily reconcile himself, but... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...glasses. Lord John Sackville prcdecessed me here, and instituted certain games called erieketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour...tranquillity, while a Parliament is bursting about my cars. You know it is going to be dissolved : I am told, you are taken care of, though I don't know... | |
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... Chenevixes had tricked it out for themselves: up two pair of stairs is what they call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lame telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville -predecessed... 
