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" ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall, with rakes, spades, prongs,... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Dr. Parnell. The ... - Page 66
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1825
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 9

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 298 pages
...agree with a Painter for 200 /. to paint his country-hall with Trophies of Rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a Farm — now turn over a new leaf — He bids me aflure you, he fhould be forry not to have more fchemes...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 298 pages
...agree with a Painter for 200 A to paint his country-hall with Trophies of Rakes$ fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a Farm — now turn over a new leaf — He bids me affure you, he mould be forry not to have more fchemes...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 7

Jonathan Swift - 1751 - 362 pages
...Painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with Trophies of Rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a Farm — now turn over a new leaf — He bids me affure you, he mould be forry not to have more fchemes...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections ..., Volume 10

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 352 pages
...agree with a painter for 260 /. to paint his country-hall with Trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm— now turn over a new leaf — He bids me aflnre you, he fliould be forry not to have more fchemes of...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

British Plutarch - Great Britain - 1776 - 350 pages
...with a painter, for 200 pounds, to paint his1 *' country hall with rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. «« and other ornaments, merely to countenance « his calling this place a farm." Happy would it have been for his lordfhip if he could have remained content in this delightful retreat,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ..., Volume 16

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 462 pages
...agree with a painter for 200 1. to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &L-. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm. — Now turn over a new leaf — He bids me affure you, he fhould beforrynotto have more fchemes of...
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 424 pages
...agree with a painter for aool. to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf. — He bids me affure you, he fhould be forry not to have more fchemes...
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An Historical Account of Those Parishes in the County of Middlesex: Which ...

Daniel Lysons - Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England) - 1800 - 386 pages
...agree with a painter for 200 l. to paint his " country hall with trophies of rakes, fpades, prongs, &c. and other " ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm '*." editor of the Biographia Britannica obferves, from his own knowledge, that it ivas fo painted...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 10, Issue 4

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...3 try OH CUUKCH POKCH, Miikllcwx. MfDDLESF.X. try-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm." The mansion in which Lord Bolingbroke lived had long been a seat of the Bennet family, and was a fine...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 14

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...agree with a painter for 2001. to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments merely to countenance his calling this place a farm — now turn over a new leaf.— He bids me assure you, he should be sorry not to have more schemes...
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