 This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches,...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 68by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | English letters - 1755 - 318 pages
...Flatterers here are all Mutes. The Oaks, the Beeches, and Chefnuts feerri to contend which (hall beft pleafe the Lord of 'the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. 1, in return, with Sincerity admire them,, and have about me as many Beauties as take up' all my Hours... | |
 | English literature - 1762 - 736 pages
...of the inanimate world. The oaks, the beeches, and chefnuts feem to contend which mail belt pleafe the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I, in return, with Sincerity admire them, and have about me as many beauties, as take up all my hours... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 546 pages
...understand not the language, and taste not the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 448 pages
...the illstand not the language, and taste not the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
..." You are alluding to Walpole,' said Tremaine. " ' I am, nnd to his celebrated letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. " My...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'* " 'I will not be bound,' cried Tremaine, ' by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaki, the beeches, and the chesnuts, contend which of them shall best, please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive — they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties round me to fill up all my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 436 pages
...men. My flatterers are mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend, which shall best please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive; they will not lie. I, in return, with sincerity admire them ; and have as many beauties about me, as fill up all my hours... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 810 pages
...You are alluding to Walpole,' said Tremaine. " • I am, and to his celebrated letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. " My...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'* " 'I will not be bound,' cried Tremaine, * by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. ' My flatterers here,' says he, ' arc all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem...he wished himself and the world to believe he was without.'"* " I will not be bound," cried Tremaine, " by the example of expelled placemen, who, fixing... | |
 | John Chambers - Norfolk (England) - 1829 - 654 pages
...under his banishment from court, that he said " My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks and beeches seem to contend which best shall please the lord of...manor — they cannot deceive, they will not lie." He died in 1745, in his seventy-first year. Mr. Cox refutes the idea that sir Robert had said, "that... | |
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