 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
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 698 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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, 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... | |
 | James Grigor - Norfolk (England) - 1841 - 500 pages
...1743, to General Churchill : " My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of...manor — they cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties around me as fill up all my hours of dangling."... | |
 | James Grigor - Norfolk (England) - 1841 - 504 pages
...1743, to General Churchill : " My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of...manor — they cannot deceive, they will not lie. I in sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties around me as fill up all my hours of dangling."... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...Yon are alluding to Walpole,' said Tremaine. " • 1 am, and to his celebrated letter, supposed to prove a most philosophical love of retirement. "My...the Manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie." 1 quite agree with bis biographer, CUM-, that this indicates the very hankering after the world, which... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 488 pages
...pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, 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, and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 574 pages
...My flatterers are all 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 sincerity admire them, and have as many beauties about me as fill up nil my hours of dangling, and... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 pages
...understand not the language and taste, nor the pleasure oi the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...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... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 pages
...understand not the language and taste, nor the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts,...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... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...GARDENING. inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes : the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of...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... | |
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