 All plain and smooth like a quakers' meeting. None of your Egyptian pyramids, to entomb subscribers' capitals. No overgrown colonnades of stone, like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court...  Rejected Addresses: Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum - Page 22by James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 pages
...:ne, like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...the model of a temple in Athens, no, nor a temple in Moor finlds, but it is built to act English plays in, and provided you have good scenery, dresses,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 pages
...stone, like an alderman's gouty legs, in white cotton stockings, fit only to uso as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...plain as the pike-staff I used to carry when I was a sergeant. Apropos, as the French valets say, who cut their masters' throats ; apropos, a word about... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...stone, like an alderman's gouty legs, in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...scenery, dresses, and decorations, I dare say you would n't break your hearts if the outside were as plain as the pike-staff I used to carry when I was... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 272 pages
...stone,1 like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...temple in Athens, no, nor a temple in Moorfields, 1 [The present colonnade in Little Russell Street formed no part of the original design ; and was erected... | |
 | James Smith - 1855 - 152 pages
...You see me here, white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Koad. This house is neither after the model of a temple...plain as the pikestaff I used to carry when I was a sergeant. Apropos, as the French valets say, who cut their masters' throats, — apropos, a word about... | |
 | James Smith - 1860 - 460 pages
...stone,4 like an alderman's gouty legs in white cott^ stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...you have good scenery, dresses, and decorations, I daresay you would n't break your hearts if the outside was as plain as the pikestaff I used to carry... | |
 | James Smith - 1860 - 456 pages
...stone,4 like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...the model of a temple in Athens, no, nor a temple in MoorfieMs, but it is built to act English plays in ; and, provided you have good scenery, dresses,... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1871 - 444 pages
...stone,4 like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...you have good scenery, dresses, and decorations, I daresay you would n't break your hearts if the outside was as plain as the pikestaff I used to carry... | |
 | James Smith - 1878 - 82 pages
...alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court-road. This house is neither after the model of a temple in Athens, no, nor a temple in 1ероу\уф1коч, ôirtos à BrjfíOí elffopüv 55 ачгору TÍ фг)<т£, prjfíar OVK... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1885 - 332 pages
...stone, like an alderman's gouty legs in white cotton stockings, fit only to use as rammers for paving Tottenham Court Road. This house is neither after...plain as the pikestaff I used to carry when I was a sergeant. Apropos, as the French valets say, who cut their masters' throats — apropos, a word about... | |
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