 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 Seiten
...the human race should give place to rising generations. And indeed the mortality is almost as rapid. Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas,...the parlour, where they are slightly mentioned as my father s and mothers pictures. When they become my grandfather and grandmother, they mount to the two... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 462 Seiten
...give plaee to rising generations. And indeed the mortality is ahuost as rapid. Portraits that eost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas, and that proudly take...in the next generation to those of the newmarried eouple, deseending into the parlour, where they an slightly mentioned as my father's and mother s pietures.... | |
 | 1851 - 568 Seiten
...human race should give place to risiug generations; and, indeed, the mortality is almost as rapid. Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, .sixty guineas,...the drawing-room, give way in the next generation to the new married couple, descending into the parlour, where they are slightly mentioned as my fathtr... | |
 | 1851 - 582 Seiten
...human race should give place to rising generations; and, indeed, the mortality is almost as rapid. Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas,...the drawing-room, give way in the next generation to the new married couple, descending into the parlour, where they are slightly mentioned as my father... | |
 | 1870 - 930 Seiten
...claimants to esteem who push from their places ;he favourites of fame. " Portraits," wrote Walpole, "that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas, and that proudly take possession of the drawing room, give way in the next generation to those of the newly-married couple, descending into... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 Seiten
...cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas ' — what would he have said of the prices of our days ? — ' and that proudly take possession of the drawing-room,...couple, descending into the parlour, where they are slightingly mentioned as my father's and mother's pictures. When they become grandfather and grandmother... | |
 | Richard Redgrave, Samuel Redgrave - 1981 - 628 Seiten
...from most strange associations, and we cannot avoid quoting his picturesquely expressed authority how 'Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas,...next generation to those of the new-married couple, when they are slightly mentioned as my father's and my mother's pictures. When they become my grandfather's... | |
 | John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - 1905 - 396 Seiten
...Charles Jervas, and the immoderate praise lavished upon him by Pope and other of his contemporaries, that "Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas,...new-married couple, descending into the parlour, where they arc slightly mentioned as my father's and mother's futures. " When they become mi grandfather and grandmother,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 584 Seiten
...cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas ' — what would he have said of the prices of our days ? — ' and that proudly take possession of the drawing-room, give way in the next generation to those of tho new-married couple, descending into the parlour, where they are slightingly mentioned as my father's... | |
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Portraits that cost twenty, thirty, sixty guineas, and that proudly take possession of the drawing-room, give way in the next generation to those of the new-married couple, descending into the parlour, where they are slightly mentioned as my father s... 