 | William Coxe - 1820 - 486 Seiten
...will cost an immense sum to complete the ^causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...notwithstanding all this, Sir John has given lord Marlborough ah estimate, in which he tells him all is to be complete for fifty-four •thousand three hundred and... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1839 - 608 Seiten
...an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge in which I counted thirty-three rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...much prettier than London Bridge is, that you may sit in six rooms, and look out at window into the high arch, while the coaches are driving over your... | |
 | John Benson Rose - 1869 - 236 Seiten
...an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge in which I counted thirty-three rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...makes it so much prettier than London Bridge is that j'ou may sit in six rooms and look out at windows into the high arch, &c." Marlborough still in 1704... | |
 | Edward Marshall - 1874 - 148 Seiten
...construction, and it is curious to observe the points which she selected as most worthy of admiration:— " Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge...in six rooms and look out at window into the high road, while the coaches are driving over your head." It was in reference to this bridge that the lines... | |
 | Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - 1886 - 388 Seiten
...bridges have caused so many epigrams. The Duchess called it " that ridiculous bridge," and says, " what makes it so much prettier than London Bridge is that you may set in six rooms and lookout at window into the high arch while the coaches are driving over your head." At that time it... | |
 | William Coxe - 1896 - 532 Seiten
...will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...all is to be complete for fifty-four thousand three bundred and eighty-one pounds ; and because I can't believe that such a sum will do all, when thirty-eight... | |
 | Alfred Henry Malan - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...in the hot weather. This appealed to the eighteenth century as highly romantic. The Duchess wrote: "Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge...so much prettier than London Bridge is that you may sit in six rooms, and look out at window into the high arch, while the coaches are driving over your... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1901 - 366 Seiten
...an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted thirty-three rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...arch, while the coaches are driving over your head." The building of Blenheim Palace had been suspended since 1712, when the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - 1925 - 400 Seiten
...corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier than London Bridge is, that you may sit in six rooms and look out at window into the high...estimate in which he tells him all is to be complete for £54,381 ; and because I can't believe that such a sum will do all, when 38,000 so lately did nothing,... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - 1925 - 400 Seiten
...will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the...much prettier than London Bridge is, that you may sit in six rooms and look out at window into the high arch, while the coaches are driving over your... | |
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... it will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier than London bridge is, that you may set in... 
