 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 her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five...  Peerage of England. ... - Side 463av Arthur Collins - 1812Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 376 sider
...and when you get into her drawing-room you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Pole ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 374 sider
...it with servants. A cousin, speaking of a call upon her, says : " It is like the Tower of Babel ; a Hungarian servant takes your name at the door, he...her ladyship's presence you have changed your name tive times, without the expense of an Act of Parliament." • Dilke ; Papert, etc., vol. ii. pp. 354-5.... | |
 | 1899 - 320 sider
...and when you get into her drawing-room you imagine you are in the first storey of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...times without the expense of an Act of Parliament. A Quarterly Reviewer reminds us that Walpole ' thus announces the approach of the moment which was... | |
 | 1900 - 442 sider
...when you get into her drawing-room, you imagine that you are in the first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...changed your name five times without the expense of au act of Parliament." Another distinguished literary lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, was the wife of... | |
 | 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 - 1903 - 706 sider
...takes your name at the door ; he ves it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman, the rencaman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that...times, without the expense of an act of parliament.' At the subscription masquerade, to which Mrs Montagu went in the dress of the ' Queen Mother,' we are... | |
 | 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 - 1903 - 710 sider
...speaks, acts, or dresses like anybody else.' And her house is said to bo like the Tower of Babel. ' An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...it to an Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman, tho Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Polander ; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1893 - 636 sider
...find peace with God) I know nothing of these infamous libels my son has produced in my name." Babel. An Hungarian servant takes your name at the door ;...Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, and the Swiss to a Pole; so that by the time you get to her ladyship's presence, you have changed your name five times... | |
 | 1901 - 616 sider
...first story of the Tower of Babel. An Hungarian servant tales your name at the door ; he gives it to u Italian, who delivers it to a Frenchman, the Frenchman to a Swiss, the Swiss t<>» Polandcr— so that by the time you get t<> her ladyship's presence you have changed... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 sider
...3S4~529 servants. A cousin, speaking of a call upon her, says : "It is like the Tower of Babel ; a Hungarian servant takes your name at the door, he...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 sider
...pp. 354-529 servants. A cousin, speaking of a call upon her, says : "It is like the Tower of Babel; a Hungarian servant takes your name at the door, he...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... | |
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