 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 דפים
...Papers, etc., vol. ii, pp. 3S4~529 servants. A cousin, speaking of a call upon her, says : "It is like the Tower of Babel ; a Hungarian servant takes your...times, without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Horace Walpole pays her a visit, and says, "she was old, dirty, tawdry, and painted." But he did not... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 628 דפים
...when you get into her drawingroom you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door : he...Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to your ladyship's presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament." Lady... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 672 דפים
...when you get into her drawingroom you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door : he...Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to your ladyship's presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament." Lady... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...times, without the expense of an act of parliament. — MONTAGU, ELIZABETH, 1762, A Lady of the Last Century, p. 129. To Congreve she was all brightness,... | |
 | 1913 - 640 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...time you get to her Ladyship's presence, you have your name changed five times without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Imagine such a thing happening... | |
 | John Stuart Earl of Bute, Sir Charles Stuart - 1925 - 384 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door, he...presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament. The subject* of all this curiosity died in August of this same year 1762, her... | |
 | 1893 - 866 דפים
...when yon get into her drawingroom you imagine you are In the first story of the Tower of Kabel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a I'ole ; so that by the time you get to lier ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times... | |
 | Isobel Grundy - 1999 - 718 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he...Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander.'" Few of Lady Mary's old friends were alive to greet her; but there was an endless flow of new friends,... | |
 | 1893 - 1236 דפים
...when yon get into her drawing room you imagine yon are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...who delivers it to a Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swigg, and the Swigs to a Pole ; so that by the time yon get to her ladyship'g presence, yon have changed... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 822 דפים
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you ate in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...who delivers it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swi»s; and the Swiis to a Polamler; so that by the time you get to her Ladyship's presence, you have... | |
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... of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he gives it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you... 
