 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 sider
...without loathsomeness ; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...lastingness made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful. The servants not so many in number, as cleanly in apparel, and serviceable in behaviour ; testifying... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 sider
...without loathsomeness ; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...lastingness made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful. The servants not so many in number, as cleanly in apparel, and serviceable in behaviour ; testifying... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 312 sider
...more before the portion now in progress, which is the south side of the quadrangle, can be completed. The exterior of the building is plain, but has an...propensities. Thus, for Nero's overwhelming pride, no space, no height could suffice ; so he built his " golden house" upon a scale which obliged its next... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 670 sider
...has an air of grandeur even from its simplicity and uniformity. It reminds me of Sir Philip Sydney 's beautiful description — " A house built of fair...propensities. Thus, for Nero's overwhelming pride, no space, no height, could suffice ; so he built his " golden house " upon a scale which obliged its next... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 366 sider
...that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye helieve it ws» exceeding heautiful." When a selfish despot designs a palace , it is for himself he huilds. He thinks first of his own personal tastes and peculiar hahits , and the arrangements are contrived... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 sider
...extraordinary kind of fineness, as an honourable representing of a firm stateliness ; all more lasting ban beautiful, but that the consideration of the exceeding...propensities. Thus, for Nero's overwhelming pride, no space, no height, could suffice; so he built his "golden house" upon a scale which ' obliged its next... | |
 | 1845 - 384 sider
...without loathsomeness; not so dainty as not to be trod upon, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceedingly beautiful." There can be no doubt that this is the same place as the one described by Jonson... | |
 | 1845 - 410 sider
...without loathsomeness ; not so dainty as not to be trod upon, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceedingly beautiful." There can be no doubt that this is the same place as the one described by Jonson... | |
 | 1845 - 432 sider
...without loathsomeness ; not so dainty as not to be trod upon, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceedingly beautiful." There can be no doubt that this is the same place as the one described by Jonson... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 sider
...without loathsomeness ; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet slubbered up with good fellowship ; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration...made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful." The beauty of the country about Penshurst has been already mentioned. Instead of now attempting to... | |
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... stairs rather directed to the use of the guest than to the eye of the artificer; and yet as the one chiefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiosity, and homely without loathsomeness; not so dainty as not to be trod... 
