There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated... A Drill Book in English - Page 331891 - 106 pagesFull view - About this book
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster...past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments, which are developed by liberty and civilization, were... | |
| 1842 - 654 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, ihere never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation were now... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the...past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents, and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation, were... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calcu lated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation were now... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the...past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents, and all the accomplishments, which are developed by liberty and civilisation, were... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never...highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation were now... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which...past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation were now... | |
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