 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
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1925 - 638 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...built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fancies. The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic - English language - 1927 - 552 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 macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look... | |
 | 1821 - 774 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 - 1881 - 910 pages
...Dutch falnilies. The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of f;it 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 duys sweat merely to look... | |
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