 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 216by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 448 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 444 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... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - East Anglia (England) - 1901 - 542 pages
...scenes. Then he could say, " 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." It would have been a sad blow to him could he have known the fate in store for the art treasures —... | |
 | Norfolk (England) - 1914 - 590 pages
...and riding about his estate. " My flatterers here, ' he said. " 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." To Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford, succeeded his eldest son Robert, who, however, did not... | |
 | Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - Great Britain - 1921 - 366 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." The tree was as living to Gladstone as to Walpole, but with him it was only one of innumerable living... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - Great Britain - 1904 - 846 pages
...inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes ; the oaks, the beeches, the chesnuts seem to contend who shall please the lord of the manor ; they cannot deceive, they will not lie. I sincerely admire them, and I have as many beauties about me as fill up all my hours of dangling; and... | |
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