 The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers,...  Literary and Historical Memorials of London - Page 395by John Heneage Jesse - 1847Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...rvWvrs which iS* whole , * ^ 4., » Sk ti lnii.ui of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of .Stratford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party,...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers ; the streets were kept clear by cavalry ; the peers, robed in gold aiid... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine,... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Slrafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party...redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wauting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept cleu by cavalry. The peers,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...awed and melted a victorious party, inflamed with jusf resentment; the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine,... | |
 | 1849 - 742 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers ; the streets were kept clear hy cavalry ; the peers, robed in gold and... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...juat sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Stafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party,...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers ; the streets were kept clear by cavalry ; the peers, robed in gold and... | |
 | 1849 - 822 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentenoe of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somera : the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...party, inflamed with just resentment : the hall where Charlea had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grena• Critical and Miicdlancous Essays, iii. 205, 206. diers ; the streets were... | |
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