 In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c.  Sir Christopher Wren - Page 134by Lena Milman - 1908 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off that peice ; on demanding the price, he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 1Q0 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober, and discreete in his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off that peice ; on demanding the price, he said ,£10O. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober, and discreete in his... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...but a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off thatpeice; on demanding the price, he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the peice were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober,... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pages
...a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding the price, he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender 1 Usually called Gibbons, celebrated for his exquisite carving in wood ; very beautiful specimens of... | |
 | James Elmes - 1825 - 322 pages
...but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding the price, he said, one hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | 1826 - 374 pages
...but would not be sorry to sell off that piece: on demanding the price, he said one hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1820 - 384 pages
...but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding the price, he said, one hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money,...being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the (lowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece were more than a hundred... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 404 pages
...an hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong : in the piece were more than an hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 494 pages
...but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding his price, he said, an hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 332 pages
...but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding his price, he said, a hundred pounds. In good earnest, the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was... | |
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