There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry 30 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... Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Page 81by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1912 - 92 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1842 - 654 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...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 baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...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... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pages
...have been spectacles/ '.says Mr. Macaulay, "more dazzling to the eye, more 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 was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest wliich belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 644 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there iiever was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
| J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery, and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflect;?^ and imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 360 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery »nd cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectatele so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grow-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster;...reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interests which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past were collected... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grow-up children, than that which was then exhihited at Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle...reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interests which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past were collected... | |
| 1867 - 894 pages
...Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle во well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various... | |
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