 ... a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower...  Annual Register - Page 64edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - 1781 - 620 pages
...condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids : the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped...footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. I fpeak it without defigning to infinuate any unfavourable fufpicions, but it fcems difficult to fay,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids : the pages of the family were converted into wood-nymphs who 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,... | |
 | 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 over the lawns- in the figure of Satyrs. I fpeak- it without defigniivg to- infmuate any unfavourable- fu(f>kiotM» bor irfeemr dfffitult to... | |
 | 1792 - 784 pages
...condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with tritons and nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into wood-nymphs, who peeped...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
...condefecniled to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with tritons and nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into wood-nymphs, who .peeped...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
...condefcended to walk In the garden, the lake was covered with tritons and nereids; the pages of the family were converted into 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
...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 virginity fhould have been made the theme of perpetual and escelîîve panegyric : nor ¿of» it immediately... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1805 - 736 pages
...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
...condefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with. Triton» and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped...feems difficult to fay, why Elizabeth's virginity fhould have been made the theme of perpetual and exceffive panegyric : nor does it immediately appear,... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...conrlefcended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids; the pages of the family Were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped...footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs. I fpeak It without defigning to infinuate any unfavourable fufpicions, but it feems difficult to fay,... | |
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