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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism. 3-5 ... - Page 204
by Walter Scott - 1870
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Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and Her Second ..., Volume 2

Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 388 pages
...billiard-room, and the eatingroom ; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-glass from top to bottom; and then you must stuff them fuller...urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the L—d or the devil knows what. But, for fear you should ruin yourself or the nation, the Duchess de...
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Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and Her Second ..., Volume 2

Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 406 pages
...will hold with granite tables, and porphyry urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the L — d or the devil knows what. But, for fear you should...nation, the Duchess de Grammont must give you this, and Madame de Marsan that ; and if you have any body that has any taste to advise you, your eating-room...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 30

1824 - 612 pages
...|be great satU, and the gallery, and the billiard -room, and the~*eutingroom , and all 'these must be hung with crystal lustres and lookingglasses from...them fuller than they will hold with granite tables, am! porphyry urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the Lord or the devil knows what. But,...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 19

Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...the great satte, and the gallery, and the billiard room, and the eating-room; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-glasses from...the nation, the Duchess de Grammont must give you tlti*, and Madam de Marsan that; and if you have any body that has any taste to advise you, your eating...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism

Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 pages
...billiard room, and the eating- room; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-gla«ses from top to bottom ; and then you must stuff them...the nation, the Duchess de Grammont must give you thi«, and Madam de Marsan that; and if you have any body that has any taste to advise you, your earing...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...billiard room, and the eating -room ; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking glasses from top to bottom ; and then you must stuff them...yourself or the nation, the Duchess de Grammont must give yon tfi!-,, and Madam de Marsan that ; and if you have any body that has any taste to advise you, your...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 30

1824 - 618 pages
...billiard-room, and the eatingroom ; room ; and nll these must be hung with crystal lustres and loofcing-glasses from top to bottom ; and then you must stuff them fuller than they xvill hold with granite tables, and porphyry urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the Lord...
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London Saturday Journal..., Volume 1

1839 - 444 pages
...billiard-room, and the eating-room ; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-glasset, from top to bottom ; and then you must stuff them...porphyry urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, &c. &c. But for fear you should ruin yourself or the nation, the Duchess de Grammont must give you...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 9

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1859 - 722 pages
...billiard-room, and the eating-room ; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-gla& from top to bottom, and then you must stuff them fuller...urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the L — d or the devil knows what. But, for fear you should ruin yourself or the nation, the Duchess...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 9

Horace Walpole - 1861 - 696 pages
...billiard-room, and the eating-room ; and all these must be hung with crystal lustres and looking-glass from top to bottom, and then you must stuff them fuller...urns, and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the L — d or the devil knows what. But, for fear you should ruin yourself or the nation, the Duchess...
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