 ... 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, the chestnuts,...  Appreciations and Addresses - Page 117by Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1899 - 344 pagesFull 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
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of 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,... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 448 pages
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of 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,... | |
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
...here," says he, " are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie." I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...— My 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,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 436 pages
...This place affords no news, no subject of amusement and entertainment to fine men. My flatterers are mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem...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
...here," says he, " are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie." I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...here,' says he, ' are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.' I quite ..agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the very hankering after the world,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...here,' says he, ' arc all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend which best shall please the Lord of the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.' I quite agree with his biographer, Coxe, that this indicates the. very hankering after the world, which... | |
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