His house excels all you have ever read of — a poetical Tinkerdom, without parallel even in literature. In his family room, where are a sickly large wife and a whole shoal of wellconditioned wild children, you will find half a dozen old rickety chairs... Bohemia in London - الصفحة 36بواسطة Arthur Ransome - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 293عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...house," he wrote after one of his visits to No. 10 Upper Cheyne Row, " excels all you have ever read of — a poetical Tinkerdom without parallel even...school of well-conditioned wild children, you will find half-adozen old rickety chairs gathered from half-a-dozen different hucksters, and all seemingly engaged,... | |
| 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...to his brother: "It is a poetical Tinkerdom without parallel even in literature. In his family room you will find half a dozen old rickety chairs gathered from half a dozen different hucksters, and all seemingly engaged and just pausing in a violent hornpipe. On these and around them and over the dusty... | |
| 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...did not accord with the highest ideals of domestic economy. " His house excels all you have ever read of— a •poetical Tinkerdom, without parallel even in literature. In his family room . . . you will find half a dozen old rickety chairs gathered from half a dozen different hucksters,... | |
| 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 904
...management, as well they might have done. Of Leigh Hunt's house near by he wrote to his brother: "It is a poetical Tinkerdom without parallel even in literature. In his family room you will find half a dozen old rickety chairs gathered from half a dozen different hucksters, and all... | |
| Reginald Blunt - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...his house huntings, to Cheyne Row ? " Hunt's house," Carlyle writes, " excels all you have ever read of — a poetical tinkerdom without parallel even in literature. In his family room, where are a large sickly wife and a whole school of well-conditioned wild children, you will find half a dozen... | |
| Edward Basil Lupton - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 128
...man dealt in. ... He never laughs — can only titter. . . . His house excels all you have ever read of — a poetical tinkerdom, without parallel even...family room, where are a sickly large wife and a whole shoal of wellconditioned wild children, you will find half a dozen old rickety chairs gathered from... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...without parallel even in Literature. In his familyroom, where are a sickly large Wife and a whole shoal of wellconditioned wild children, you will find half...gathered from half a dozen different hucksters, and all seemingly engaged, and just pausing, in a violent hornpipe; on these, and around them, and over the... | |
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