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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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