The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 3651820Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 páginas
...Dutch falnilies. The tea was served out of a majestic delft tea-pot, ornamented with paintings of f;it little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate duys sweat merely to look... | |
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