 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Csesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...roaming about that huge mansion, with its vast empty looms, with their worn-out hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the gilding... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Eome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again,...turned into marble with them; how I never could be tireffwïfh hu¿e manaqp, with its- vast empty rooms, -witb t , out hpngiHgs, fluttering tapes?ry,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Csesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...wornout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Cœsars, that had been emperors of Borne, the billows stiffen, and have rest? Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Ad th(-m; how I never could be tired with roaming atxmt that huge mansion, with its vast •mpty rooms,... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 pages
...in particular, used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars that had been emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I be turned into marble with them; how I never could be tired with roaming about that huge mansion, with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 322 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Cassars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken panels, with the 206 gilding almost rubbed out, — sometimes in the spacious oldfashioned gardens, which I had almost... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem !o live again, or I to be turned into marble with them ; how T could never be tired with roaming about... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 pages
...in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Ciesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...wornout hangings, fluttering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out ; sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, les about. Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs....to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty pannels, with the gilding almost rubbed out — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble...I to be turned into marble with them ; how I never couhl be tired with roaming about that huge mansion, with its vast empty rooms, with their worn-out... | |
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I in particular used to spend many hours by myself, in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them... 
