 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 páginas
...any attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not...At day-break, looking out of the window to see the nun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It Seemed one of those... | |
 | James Elmes - 1825 - 336 páginas
...with any attention, when soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not strike me. At day break looking out of the window to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 páginas
...with any attention, when soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not...the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonade^ that * That Lord Burlington being asked, why he built his house so far out of town ? replied,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 438 páginas
...mentioning the effect it had upon myself. I had not only never seen it, but had never heard of it. At day-break, looking out of the window to see the sun rise, I was surT2 prised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed one of those edifices in fairy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...any attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not strike me ; but, at daybreak, looking out of the window to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 páginas
...yawning eyelids for a peep: — "As we have few samples of architecture," writes Walpole, " more antique and imposing than that colonnade, I cannot help mentioning...could not strike me. At daybreak, looking out of the windows to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed... | |
 | 1849 - 466 páginas
...with any attention, when soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlingtonhouse. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not...rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade 2 that fronted me. 2 It seemed one of those edifices in fairy tales that are raised by genii in a night's... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 páginas
...any attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, 1 was invited to a ball at Burlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not strike me. At daybreak, looking out of the windows to see the sun-rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 páginas
...iuiy attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Ilurlington-house. As I passed under the gate by night, it could not strike me. At daybreak, looking ont of the windows to see the sun-rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 páginas
...Piceadilly there is one of the finest pieces of architecture in Europe." — Sir William Chambers. night, it could not strike me. At daybreak, looking out of the windows to see the sun-rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed... | |
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As we have few samples of architecture more antique and imposing than that colonnade, I cannot help mentioning the effect it had on myself. I had not only never seen it, but had never heard of it, at least with any attention, when, soon after my return... 
