 | 1848 - 744 pages
...well-known General Wade had a house which was designed by Lord Burlington. It was wittily said of it, that it was too small to live in and too large to append to a watch ribbon." This is altogether wrong. The saying is Lord Hervey's, the house, Chuwick,... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 478 pages
...you dwell !" But the fa$ade and colonnade are surely in a fine style. Of Chiswick (which was the fac simile of an Italian villa) Lord Hervey said, " that...jointly laid out Lady Suffolk's gardens at Marble Hill. 4 Doctor Arbuthnot. VOL. I. CC and take care of myself. I wish you had as much power with somebody... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...the designs of Mr. Wyatt, and fully remove the objection made by lord Hervey, who said, ' This house was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch.' The gardens are laid out in the Italian style, and display all the beauties of modern planting. The... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 340 pages
...cold in every corner, and a consumption by way of perspective." Lord Harvey's remark is, that " it is too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch ! " I must leave off abruptly, for I hear the carriage announced ; and Lord Marchmont as much objects... | |
 | 1842 - 418 pages
...cold in every corner, and a consumption by way of perspective." Lord Harvey's remark is, that " it is too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch !" I must leave off abruptly, for I hear the carriage announced ; and Lord Marchmont as much objects... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 pages
...well-known General Wade had a house, which was designed by Lord Burlington. It was wittily said of it, that it was too small to live in, and too large to append to a watch-ribbon ; indeed, so inconvenient was its interior, and so * Biog. Brit. Art. Gay.... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 614 pages
...been telling, That 't is a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch." Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house — and there... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 pages
...been telling, That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch.. Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house—and there died... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 486 pages
...That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling." Lord Hervey also said of the villa at Chiswick, that " it wa» too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch. Subsequent additions, however, have made Lord Burlington's pavilion a tolerable house — and there... | |
 | Gervase Wheeler - 1855 - 488 pages
...small villa like that of the Duke of Devonshire — which Horace Walpole found fault with, as being " too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch-chain," though the caustic writer afterwards exhibited in his own "Strawberry Hill" how much... | |
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that it was too small to live in, and too large to hang to one's watch;" and more sober critics have pronounced it ill suited to our climate or modes of life. 
