| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 頁
...of Babel ; a 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...times, without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Horace Walpole pays her a visit, and says, "she was old, dirty, tawdry, and painted." But he did not... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 頁
...of Babel; a 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...times, without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Horace Walpole pays her a visit, and says, "she was old, dirty, tawdry, and painted." But he did not... | |
| George Paston - 1907 - 628 頁
...of Babel. An 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 your ladyship's presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament." Lady... | |
| George Paston - 1907 - 672 頁
...of Babel. An 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 your ladyship's presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament." Lady... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 頁
...of Babel. An 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...times, without the expense of an act of parliament. — MONTAGU, ELIZABETH, 1762, A Lady of the Last Century, p. 129. To Congreve she was all brightness,... | |
| 1913 - 640 頁
...of Babel. An 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...time you get to her Ladyship's presence, you have your name changed five times without the expense of an Act of Parliament." Imagine such a thing happening... | |
| John Stuart Earl of Bute, Sir Charles Stuart - 1925 - 384 頁
...of Babel. An 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...presence you have changed your name five times without an Act of Parliament. The subject* of all this curiosity died in August of this same year 1762, her... | |
| 1893 - 866 頁
...of Kabel. An 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 I'ole ; so that by the time you get to lier ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times... | |
| Isobel Grundy - 1999 - 718 頁
...of Babel. An 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.'" Few of Lady Mary's old friends were alive to greet her; but there was an endless flow of new friends,... | |
| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 822 頁
...an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman ; the Frenchman to a Swi»s; and the Swiis to a Polamler; so that by the time you get to her Ladyship's presence,...times without the expense of an act of parliament." In another letter dated the 8th October following, Mrs. Montagu write* thus: " Lady Mary VV. Montagu... | |
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