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
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes. * * • The beaux 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...Dutch families. 12. The tea was served out of a majestic delf" teapot, ornamented wife paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs...clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The beaux3 distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs — with boats sailing in the air, 20 and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious...by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a hugo copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 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 — with boats sailing in the air, 20 and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The beaux distinguished... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses, tending pigs — with hoats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds,...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... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 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... | |
| Anniversaries - 1867 - 302 pages
...delft tea-pots, dear to the historian of the Dutch dynasty, — " ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies;" while the centre of the room was filled with tables surrounded by high, broad-backed chairs, and set... | |
| E.S., J. S. F. - 1867 - 316 pages
...majestic delft tea-pots, dear to the historian of the Dutch dynasty, — "ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies;" while the centre of the room was filled with tables surrounded by high, broad-backed chairs, and set... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...tea-pot, 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 The beaus distinguished themselves by their adroitness in re[leuishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle,... | |
| Washington Irving - Dutch Americans - 1868 - 598 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,...with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in die clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. The beaux distinguished themselves by their... | |
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