 His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth.  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 195מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 416 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 דפים
...occasion to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment,...great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison-pasty, or over a flask of champaigne ; and I am persuaded he has... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 דפים
...occasion to do so, thf highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment, to be one of the staff-officers that conduct iin- nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution (even when he had, with great pains, half demolished... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 דפים
...vivacity of temperament, though it is at the expense of his morality. 'His happy constitution,' she says, ֨ $ evil when he was before a venisonpasty, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded he has known... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 דפים
...occasion to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment,...pains, half demolished it,) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison-pasty or over a flask of champaign ; and I am persuaded he hns known... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 דפים
...the gladness of his disposition. Lady Montague, writing soon after she beard of his death, says that "his happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded," she adds,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 דפים
...under every change of fortune. " His happy constitution," says Lady Mary Montagu, his kinswoman, " even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it, made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty and a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded he has known... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 דפים
...the gladness of his disposition. Lady Montague, writing soon after she heard of his death, says that "his happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded," she adds,... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 398 דפים
...nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal wedding His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne j and I am persuaded he has known... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 430 דפים
...so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officers that conduct the nocturnal wedding His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 דפים
...contrive to reach. He is in his Lisbon Journal the same person of whom Lady Mary Wortley wrote — ' His happy constitution, even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it, made him forget everything, when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of Champagne,, and I am persuaded he... | |
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