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" ... Chenevixes had tricked it out for themselves: up two pair of stairs is what they call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lame telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville -predecessed... "
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Página 268
1798
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 páginas
...8, 1747 : "Lord John Sackville predeceased me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow." And a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sept. 1743, says, in an article on cricket matches : " I...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volumen 25

1889 - 1104 páginas
...adopted : — The Hon. Horace Walpole to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway. Twickenham : Jnne 8, 1747. You will think I have removed my philosophy from "Windsor with my tea things hither, for I am writing to you in all this tranquillity while a Parliament is bursting...
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Horace Walpole A Memoir

Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 páginas
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.'1 The house thus whimsically described, which grew into the Gothic structure afterwards so...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 570 páginas
...statute fair to be hired." Three years afterwards he wrote to Conway, " I am writing to you in all tranquillity while a Parliament is bursting about my ears ; you know it is young to be dissolved. . . . They say the Prince has taken up £200,000 to carry elections, which he...
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Highways and Byways in Middlesex

Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 438 páginas
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow. The enthusiastic note on which Walpole began his possession of what had been " Chopped Straw Hall "...
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George II. and His Ministers

Reginald Jaffray Lucas - 1910 - 436 páginas
...Strawberry Hill : ' Lord John Sackville predeceased me here and instituted certain games called cricketalia which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.' Whatever was the cause, the result was an internal malady which proved fatal, and Frederick was not...
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On the Art of Writing, Volumen 10

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1916 - 332 páginas
...any glasses. Lord John Sackville predeceased me here and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour...tea-things hither; for I am writing to you in all tranquillity while a Parliament is bursting about my ears. You know it is going to be dissolved. They...
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The Cricket-field

James Pycroft - 1922 - 352 páginas
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow." 13 And now, the oldest chronicler is Old Nyren, who wrote an account of the cricketers of his time....
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 páginas
...glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow. Letter to HS Conway 277 Funeral of (jeorge II Arlington Street, Nov. 13, 1760. DO you know, I had the...
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A Selection of the Letters of Horace Walpole, Volumen 1

Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 páginas
...glasses. Lord John Sackville -predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour...philosophy from Windsor with my tea-things hither 5 for I am writing to you in all this tranquillity, while a Parliament is bursting about my ears. You...
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