 | Thomas Warton - 1781 - 620 pages
...with a delicious baffo-relievo of the deftruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when (he condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons...defigning to infinuate any unfavourable fufpicions, but it fcems difficult to fay, why Elifabeth's virginity mould have been made the theme of perpetual and exceflive... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...with a delicious baflb-relievo of the deftruftion of Troy. In the afternoon, when flic condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons...peeped from every bower : and the footmen gamboled orerthe lawns in the figure of fatyrs. I fpeak it without defigning to infinuate any unfavourable fufpicions,... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...with a delicious bafib- relievo of the deilruftion of Troy. In the afternoon, when ihe condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons...Nereids: the pages of the family were converted into wood-nymphi, who peeped from every bower: : . ti the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...lake wa« covered with Triion« and Nereidi: the pages of the family were converted into wood-nympbc, who peeped from every bower: and the footmen gamboled...lawns- in the figure of Satyrs. I fpeak- it without defigniivg to- infmuate any unfavourable- fu(f>kiotM» bor irfeemr dfffitult to fay, why Elifabeth's... | |
 | 1792 - 784 pages
...delicious bafíb-relievo of the deuruction of Troy. When, in the afternoon, her majefty condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with tritons...footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. This inundation of claffical pedantry fpeedily infected our poetry. Thefe novel imaginations dazzled... | |
 | 1792 - 530 pages
...delicious baflo-relievo of the deftrunion of Troy. When, in the afternoon, her majefty condefecniled to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with tritons...the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of fatyrs. This inundation of claffical pedantry fpeedily infefled our poetry. Thefe novel imaginations... | |
 | 1792 - 724 pages
...delicious bafio-relievo of the dcllruction of Troy. When, in the afternoon, her majefty condefcended to walk In the garden, the lake was covered with tritons...wood-nymphs, who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gambqjcd over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. This inundation of claffical pedantry fpeedily infected... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...the pag'cs of the family were convertedintoWood-Nymphs,whopeep ed from every bower : and the toocmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. I fpeak it without deligning to- infinítate any unfavourable fufpicions, but it feems difficult to fay, why Elizabeth's... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1805 - 736 pages
...tlic afternoon, when (he eondefcctided to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons nnd Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into...wood-nymphs, who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gambled over the lawns in the figure of iatyre. I fpenk it, (fays Mr. Warton,) without defigning to... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pages
...In the afternoon, when Ihe condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with. Triton» and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted...footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. 1 fpeak it without defigning to infinuate any unfavourable fufpicions, but it feems difficult to fay,... | |
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Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the-... 
