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" 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 365
1820
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The Normal Course in Reading, Book 5

Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot, 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 merely to look...
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The Normal Course in Reading: Fifth Reader : Advanced Readings in Literature ...

Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot, 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 merely to look...
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Hazen's Fourth Reader

Marshman William Hazen - Elocution - 1895 - 452 pages
...Dutch families. 4. The tea was served out of a majestic Delft teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle. 5. To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately...
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Hazen's Primer and First-[fifth] Reader, Book 4

Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 450 pages
...Dutch families. 4. The tea was served out of a majestic Delft teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle. 5. To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately...
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The Normal Course in Reading, by Emma J. Todd and W.B. Powell: Alternate ...

Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot, 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...
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Knickerbocker Stories from the Old Dutch Days of New York

Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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...
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Knickerbocker Stories from the Old Dutch Days of New York

Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 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...Dutch fantasies. The beaux distinguished themselves by'their adrojtnessjn replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the...
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School Reading by Grades: Fourth-seventh Years

James Baldwin - 1897 - 492 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 clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fancies. The beaux distinguished them- so selves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from...
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Choice Literature: For Grammar Grades, Book 1

American literature - 1898 - 348 pages
...Dutch families. The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs,...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronis of these degenerate days sweat merely to look...
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