 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 pages
...Mr. Pierce for a little money : I did think to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1000/.; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse ; where, though four o'clock, so few people there at " The Impertinents,"... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1845 - 328 pages
...of Mr. Pierce, for a little money: I did think to give 200l. for it, it being said to be worth WOOL; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good picture." discovered in Kensington Palace, and taken from their frames and bound in two volumes. During Mr. Dalton's... | |
 | Franz Kugler - 1846 - 444 pages
...Pierce for a little money : I did think to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1 ,000/. ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant though a good picture. (Pepys's Diary, iv. p. 160.) For those in the Royal Galleries, see Mrs. Jameson's Public Galleries.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 pages
...the south end of Monkwell Street is Silver Street. Here, from the days of Richard the Second XI 000 ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and it is not a pleasant, though a good picture." to those of Henry the Sixth, stood " The Neville's Inn,"... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 510 pages
...Pierce, for a little money : I did think to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1 0001. ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, where, though four o'clock, so few people there at " The Impertinents,"... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 532 pages
...Pierce, for a little money : I did think to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1 0001. ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, artd is not a pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, where, though... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 pages
...little money. I did think," lit- adtis. '• to give 200/. for it. it being s.iid to be worth 1UOO/. ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant though a good picture."— Diary, 29th Aug. IGoH. Next its a whole-length of Sir Charles Scarborough, by Walker, chief physician... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 498 pages
...Mr. Pieree, for a little money : I did think to give 200?. for it, it being said to be worth 1000?. ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good pieture. Thenee earried Harris to his playhouse, where, though four o'eloek, so few people there at... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 pages
...money. I did think," he adits, " to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1000/.; but it it so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant though a good picture."— Diary, 29th Aug. IfißK. barber to Charles II. ; and of John Patcrson, clerk to the Company, and the... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 334 pages
...Mr. Pierce, for a little money : I did think to give £200 for it, it being said to be worth £1000 ; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good picture." U perty of the Crown, I am uninformed. However, true 'it is that they were discovered in Kensington... | |
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Holben's,1 thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a little money: I did think to give £200 for it, it being said to be worth £1,000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good picture. 
