 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...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 261edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 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...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
...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 [essays]) - 1854 - 452 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...All the talents and all the accomplishments which arc developed by liberty and civilisation were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 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;...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
...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 iiever was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 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...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
...more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery »nd cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then 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
...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 во well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various... | |
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