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" would take no denial. He went himself to the General's house, and at length brought his vanquished rival in triumph to the gay circle which surrounded the bride. The exertion was too much for a frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. "
Warren Hastings - Page 297
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 394 pages
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high goodhumour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...for a frame broken by mortification as well as by disease—Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Lord Clive. Ranke's History of the popes ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 370 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and was forced...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be GovernorGeneral, and was forced...
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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and was forced...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high goodhumour,would take no denial. He went himself to the General's house, and at length brougiut his vanquished rival in triumph to time gay circle whmichi surrounded the bride, The exertion...
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Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 568 pages
...Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high goodhumour,would take no denial. He went himself to the General's house,...surrounded the bride. The exertion was too much for a frame hroken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out...
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The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 6

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering die J a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and was forced...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease. Clavering die;! a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and was forced...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 93

1867 - 894 pages
...But Hastings, whom, as it should seem, success in ambition and in love had put into high good-humour, would take no denial. He went himself to the General's...frame broken by mortification as well as by disease — Clavering died a few days later. Wheler, who came out expecting to be Governor-General, and was...
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Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, K.C.B.: With Correspondence and ..., Volume 2

Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 618 pages
...told by Macaulay, that Hastings insisted on having his attendance at his own marriage festivities; ‘brought his vanquished rival in triumph to the gay circle which surrounded the bride,' and thereby hastened his decease. It must be observed that Francis—though, as we have seen, in his...
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