 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 have changed your name five...  Peerage of England. ... - Page 463de Arthur Collins - 1812Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pages
...and when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first story of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polancler ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you ha\ e changed your name five... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...and when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first story of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman, the Frenchman to я* Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 pages
...and 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 gives it to an Italian, who delK;rs it to a Frenchman; the Frenchman to a Swiss ; and the Swiss to a Polandcr; so that by the time... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 pages
...and when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine you arc in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swiss ; and the Swiss to a Polandrr ; so tl1at by the time you get to her Ladyship's presence, you have changed ;our r.ame rive... | |
 | John Burke - 1832 - 768 pages
...when you get into her drawing room, you imagine that you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door; he gives it to an Italian, who deli vein it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swiss ; and the Swiss to a Polander; so that by the... | |
 | 1893 - 846 pages
...and when you get into her drawingroom you imagine you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Pole ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1845 - 126 pages
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine that you are in the first story 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 Frenehman; the Frenehman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander; so that by the time you get to her... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 376 pages
...and when you get into her drawing-room, you imagme you are iu the first story of the tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...times without the expense of an act of parliament/'— (T"e passage is in her collected letters, but we get it from tne Censura Literaria of Sir Egerton Brydges,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 382 pages
...and 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;...your name five times without the expense of an act of parliament."—(The passage is in her collected letters, but we get it from the Censura Literaria of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...when you get into her drawingroom, you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. A Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ; he...by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you bave changed your name five times without the expense of an act of parliament.' In a letter written... | |
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