 The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3651820Full view - About this book
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic Delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses, tending...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat J - merely to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - Gulf States - 1851 - 478 pages
...teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs—with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look... | |
 | Washington Irving - Gift books - 1853 - 304 pages
...majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses, tendmg pigs — with boats sailing in the air, and houses...their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a hugh copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1853 - 474 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs...air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingemiSJis Dutch fantasies. The beaux distinguished themselves by their <-uftCp'ttles9 'n replenishing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...in the air, and houses built in the t louds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The Itf'aux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1857 - 332 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delf tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other Dutch fantasies. 8. The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs — witn j,0ats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The caux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishlng this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...teapot, ornamented wife paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs—with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the...sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The beaux 3 distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle,... | |
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