 This offer and refusal Moore communicated by letter to Leigh Hunt. Mayfield Cottage, when the poet and his wife arrived to view it, wore anything but an inviting aspect.  A Memory of Thomas Moore - Страница 15написао/ла Samuel Carter Hall - 1879 - 32 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 страница
...that they found vacant. Mayfield cottage was the one. " It was a poor place," said Moore to myself, " little better than a barn, but we at once took it, and "set about making it habitable." It is no doubt from some such remark on the part of the poet that a paragraph originated which I have... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 страница
...wife arrived to view it, wore anything but an inviting aspect. ' It was a poor place,' Moore wrote, ' little better than a barn ; but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable and comfortable.' He now commenced the formidable task of working himself up into a proper Oriental... | |
 | 1852 - 892 страница
...Ashbourue, in Derbyshire, and near Lord Moira's seat, Donington Park. Mayfield Cottage was, as he wrote, " a poor place, little better than a barn ; but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable and comfortable." He had grown weary of London, and felt possibly, that he was formed for some other,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1856 - 570 страница
...wife arrived to view it, wore anything but an inviting aspect. ' It was a poor place,' Moore wrote, ' little better than a barn ; but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable and comfortable.' He now commenced the formidable task of working himself up into a proper Oriental... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 страница
...wife arrived to view it, wore anything but an inviting aspect. ' It was a poor place,' Moore wrote, ' little better than a barn ; but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable and comfortable.' He now commenced the formidable task of working himself up into a proper Oriental... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 600 страница
...anything but an inviting aspect. ' It was a poor place,' Moore wrote, ' little better than a bam ; but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable and comfortable.' He now commenced the formidable task of working himself np into a proper Oriental... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1871 - 532 страница
...is certainly a delightful emancipation for her, after our very limited domain at Brompton." talism " had been engendered. Of this cottage he himself writes—"...twenty-four hours' drive of town," ie, London. It is no better than a poor place now. I visited the house in the autumn of 1869, in company with my friend... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1877 - 522 страница
...which is certainly a delightful emancipation for her, after our very limited domain at Brompton.'1 to see it, remarks on the small, solitary, and now...twenty-four hours' drive of town," ie, London. It is no better than a poor place now. I visited the house in the autumn of 1869, in company with my friend... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 284 страница
...vacant ; and they fixed upon Mayfield Cottage. " It was a poor place," said Moore to William Howitt, " little better than a barn, but we at once took it, and set about making it habitable." The rent he paid for it was £20 a year. In front there is a small flower-garden, slightly terraced, and a path... | |
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