 Deffand ; and which ease and attention had rendered so fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa ; the tea-kettle, stand, and heater, were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious...  Walpoliana - Page xxxvby Horace Walpole - 1800 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - Anecdotes - 1800 - 310 pages
...fat that it could hardly move. This •was placed befide him on a fmall fofa ; the tea-kettle, fland and heater, were brought in, and he drank two or three...china-cabinet, in his defcription of his villa, will {hew how rjch he was in that elegant luxury. The loaf and butter we?e not fpared, for never tailing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1800 - 490 pages
...liquor out of mod rare and precious ancient porcelain of Japan, of a fine white embofled with larj-e leaves. The account of his china-cabinet, in his defcription of his villa, will (how how rich he was in that elegant luxury. The loaf and birtter were not fpared, for never lading... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 714 pages
...fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa ; the tea-kettle, stand, and heater, were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient porcelain of Japan, of a fine white, embossed with large leaves. The... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...his approach by barking. The little favourite was placed beside him on a sofa ; a tea-kettle, stand, and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of tea out of the finest and most precious china of Japan — that of a pure white. He breakfasted with... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - Fiction - 1861 - 522 pages
...his approach by barking. The little favorite was placed beside him on a sofa; a tea-kettle, stand, and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of tea out of the finest and most precious china of Japan—that of a pure white. He breakfasted with... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pages
...fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa ; the tea-kettle, stand, and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient procelain of Japan, of a fine white, embossed with large leaves. The... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1890 - 414 pages
...so fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa; the tea-kettle, stand, and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient procelain of Japan, of a fine white, embossed with large leaves. The... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1890 - 282 pages
...his approach by barking. The little favourite was placed beside him on a sofa ; a tea-kettle, stand, and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of tea out of the finest and most precious china of Japan — that of a pure white. He breakfasted with... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - England - 1913 - 464 pages
...placed on a sofa by his side. " The tea-kettle, stand, and heater," making up, I suppose, the urn, " were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient porcelain of Japan, of a fine white embossed with large leaves. The... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...so fat that it could hardly move. This was placed beside him on a small sofa ; the tea-kettle, stand and heater were brought in, and he drank two or three cups of that liquor out of most rare and precious ancient porcelain of Japan, of a fine white 1 Apparently his stature had shrunk... | |
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