 | 1826 - 602 pagina’s
...the future supremacy of Almack's ; — " Mrs. Cornells, apprehending the future assembly at Almack'g, has enlarged her vast room, and hung it with blue satin, and another with yellow left some characters of raen, whose names belong to history, finer and truer than history herself could... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 610 pagina’s
...divine-righted prerogative, and royal insatin ; but Almack's room, which is to be ninety feet long, proposed to swallow up both hers as easily as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians." * See his admirable sketches of those " rags of a disbelout ministry," which he has scattered through... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pagina’s
...confined to our ears ; how long the sages of the law may leave us those I cannot say. Mrs. Cornells, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...magicians. — Well ; but there are more joys, a dinner and as. sembly every Tuesday at the Austrian minister's ; ditto on Thursdays at the Spaniard's; ditto on... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - 336 pagina’s
...Walpole's letters contains a curious prediction of the future supremacy of Almack's : — " Mrs. Cornelis, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians." t See his admirable sketches of those " rags of a dishclout ministry," which he has scattered through... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - 244 pagina’s
...future supremacy of Almack's:— 11 Mrs. Cornells, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's lias enlarged her vast room, and hung it with blue satin,...ninety feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers as easih as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians," assuming it,* but with daring skepticism,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pagina’s
...confined to our ears: how long the sages of the law may leave us those I cannot say. Mrs. Cornells, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...ninety feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers, as easy as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians. Well, but there are more joys; a dinner and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pagina’s
...confined to our ears: how long the sages of the law may leave us those I cannot say. Mrs. Cornelis, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...ninety feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers, as easy as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians. Well, but there are more joys; a dinner and... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pagina’s
...confined to our ears: how long the sages of the law may leave us those I cannot say. Mrs. Cornelis, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...ninety feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers, as easy as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians. Well, but there are more joys; a dinner and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 552 pagina’s
...confined to our ears : how long the sages of the law may leave us those I cannot say. Mrs. Cornelis, 1 apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...but Almack's room, which is to be ninety feet long, propose* to swallow up both hers, as easily as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the magicians. Well,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 pagina’s
...opposition is thus referred to by Horace Walpole, in a letter dated Dec. 16, 1764 : " Mrs. Cornelys, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has...with yellow satin ; but Almack's room, which is to be 90 feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers, as easily as Moses's rod gobbled down those of the... | |
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Cornelis1, apprehending the future assembly at Almack's, has enlarged her vast room, and hung it with blue satin, and another with yellow satin ; but Almack's room, which is to be ninety feet long, proposes to swallow up both hers, as easily as Moses's... 
