 | 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 1038
...were followed by coffee. The evening wai dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, «hen reading aloud, in history, commenced, and continued...past ten the family were gone to rest ; and the next nnd succeeding dawn ushered in the same order and elegance, and found the same content, the same happiness,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...fb«ff; — drank i few glasses of wine, followed by coffee; — walked or conversed till tea-time; — when 'reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...pastry, or something very trifling, finished the day.' Mr. Trotter, who confesses that he had carried with him some vulgar prejudices respecting Mr. Fox's'... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 854
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation, till tea-time, when reading aloud, in history, commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day ; and at halkpast 2 D ten the family were gone to rest ; and the next and succeeding dawn ushered in the same... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day ; and at half-past ten the family were gone to rest." This, we learn, was the diurnal system of a man whose... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...pastry, or something very trifling, finished the day j and at halfpast ten the family were gone to rest." Such was the simple life which Fox led during... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day; and at half-past ten the family were gone to rest. At breakfast the newspaper was read, commonly by Mr. Fox,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day; and at- half-past ten the family were gone to rest. At breakfast the newspaper was read, commonly by Mr. Fox,... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...wine were followed by coifee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day ; and at half-past ten the family were gone to rest. At breakfast the newspaper was read, commonly by Mr. Fox,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...wine were followed by cofiee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day ; and at half-past ten the family were gone to rest. At breakfast the newspaper was read, commonly by Mr. Fox,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 826
...wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated to walking and conversation till tea-time, when reading aloud in history commenced, and continued...something very trifling, finished the day ; and at half-past ten the family were gone to rest." This, we learn, was the diurnal system of a man whose... | |
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... at his literary studies, in which the Greek poets bore a principal part. A frugal but plentiful dinner took place at three, or halfpast two, in summer, and at four in winter ; and a few glasses of wine were followed by coffee. The evening was dedicated... 
