| 1871 - 1032 דפים
...gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, and the hafts set with diamonds.... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1876 - 416 דפים
...gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and •was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, and the hafts set with diamonds.... | |
| Alfred Charles Garratt - 1884 - 262 דפים
...Pitt's, the largest diamonds I ever saw in my life. " She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat. . . . But the piece of luxury which grieved my eyes was...the tablecloth and napkins, which were all tiffany, and embroidered with silk and gold in the finest manner in natural flowers, and towels of same kind,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 574 דפים
...that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But the piece of luxury that grieved my eyes was the tablecloth and napkins, which were all tiffany, embroidered with silks and gold, in the finest manner, in natural flowers. It was with the utmost regret that I made... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 דפים
...that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But the piece of luxury that grieved my eyes was the tablecloth and napkins, which were all tiffany, embroidered with silks and gold in the finest manner, in natural flowers. It was with the utmost regret that I made... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 314 דפים
...gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But... | |
| Richard Davey - 1897 - 394 דפים
...gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, and the hafts set with diamonds.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 600 דפים
...sherbet was served in china bowls, but the covers and salvers massy gold. But the piece of luxury that grieved my eyes was the tablecloth and napkins, which were all tiffany, embroidered with silks and gold, in the finest manner, in natural flowers. It was with the utmost regret that I made... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 דפים
...gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. Everything... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 328 דפים
...of her dress. " The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But the piece of luxury that grieved my eyes was the tablecloth and napkins, which were all tiffany, embroidered with silks and gold, in the finest manner, in natural flowers. It was with the utmost regret that I made... | |
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