 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 páginas
...England, public or private; nor any man or woman in England whose conversation was to be borne—the one, as he said, talking of nothing but their dull...ingenious, his subjects the happiest; and at Hanover, in short,plenty reigned, magnificence resided, arts flourished, diversions abounded, riches flowed, and... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 páginas
...Whereas, in Hanover, all these things were at perfection : men were patterns of politeness and gallantry; women, of beauty, wit, and entertainment. His troops there were the bravest in the world; his manufacturers the most ingenious ; his people, the happiest : in Hanover, in short, plenty reigned,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 páginas
...Whereas, in Hanover, all these things were at perfection : men were patterns of politeness and gallantry ; women, of beauty, wit, and entertainment. His troops there were the bravest in the world ; his manufacturers the most ingenious ; his people, the happiest : in Hanover, in short, plenty reigned,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 332 páginas
...Whereas, in Hanover, all these things were at perfection : men were patterns of politeness and gallantry ; women, of beauty, wit, and entertainment. His troops there were the bravest in the world ; his manufacturers the most ingenious ; his people the happiest : in Hanover, in short, plenty reigned,... | |
 | Carolly Erickson - 2006 - 368 páginas
...cutting his throat. King George was forever singing the praises of Hanover, his preferred realm, where "the men were patterns of politeness, bravery and...gallantry, the women of beauty, wit and entertainment," the troops the bravest in the world, the counselors the wisest, the subjects the happiest. "At Hanover,"... | |
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English coachman could drive, or English jockey ride, nor were any English horses fit to be drove or fit to be ridden; no Englishman knew how to come into a room, nor any Englishwoman how to dress herself, nor were there any diversions in England, public... 