… than any thing we meet with in the precincts of Bedlam? In all probability, the proprietors of this, and other public gardens of inferior note, in the skirts of the metropolis, are, in some shape, connected with the faculty of physic, and …
… Though the villas of the Scotch nobility and gentry have generally an air of grandeur and state, I think their gardens and parks are not comparable to those of England; a circumstance the more remarkable, as I was told by the …
Mary Delany
[ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… entire days with Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Carter in 1769, sharing their taste for conversation, 12 good meals, gardens and domestic qualities; 13 and her views on marriage, card games and politics echo those of the Bluestockings. …
… Memoirs , 127) or ‘miniature of the world’ (128) in which the boys not only attended classes but cultivated their own gardens, became ‘landholders, tradesmen and public officers’ (128), learnt to live together in a society where little …