| Thomas Davies - 1780 - 372 pages
...writer. Between the paufes or acts of this ferious reprefentation, he interwove a comic fable, confiding chiefly of the courtfhip of Harlequin and Columbine,...cottages; of men and women into wheel-barrows and jointflools; of trees turned to houfes; colonades to beds of tulips; and mechanics fhops into ferpents... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1865 - 696 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin, such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages; of men and women into wheelbarrows and joint stools ; colonnades to beds of tulips, and mechanics' shops into serpents and ostriches. This... | |
| Christmas story-teller - 1877 - 578 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin, such as the sudden transformation of palaces and .temples to huts and cottages ; of men and women into wheelbarrows and joint stools ; colonnades to beds of tulips, and mechanics' shops into serpents and ostriches. This... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 610 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin, such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages, of men and women into wheel-barrows and jointstools, of trees turned to houses, colonnades to beds of tulips, and mechanics' shops into serpents... | |
| Jacob Larwood - 1882 - 346 pages
...adventures and tricks, produced by the magic wand of Harlequin, such as the sudden transformations of palaces and temples to huts and cottages, of men and women into wheelbarrows and jointstools, of trees into houses, colonnades to beds of tulips, and mechanics' shops into serpents... | |
| Dutton Cook - 1883 - 378 pages
...variety of surprising adventures and tricks produced by the magic wand of harlequin : such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages ; of men and women into wheelbarrows and joint-stools ; of trees turned to houses, colonnades to beds of tulips, and mechanics' shops into serpents... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1896 - 468 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin, such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages, of men and women into wheelbarrows and joint-stools ' (Life of Garrick, i. 130). Rich himself invariably played Harlequin. From 1717 to 1760,"the... | |
| George Henry Nettleton - 1914 - 392 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin ; such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages ; of men and women into wheel-barrows and joint-stools; of trees turned to houses; colonades to beds of tulips; and mechanics shops into serpents... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 pages
...surprising adventures and tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin; such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages; of men and women into wheel-barrows and joint-stools; of trees turned to houses; colonades to beds of tulips; and mechanics shops into serpents... | |
| Martin Harrison - 1998 - 334 pages
...And there were other 'tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin; such as 'the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages; of men and women into wheel-barrows and joint-stools; collonades to beds of tulips; and mechanic shops into serpents and ostriches' (1808,... | |
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