There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so... Warren Hastings - Page 165by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1849 - 864 pages
...as the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, iii. 205, 206. from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mite from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...allured Reynolds from the easel which has perpetuated so many HISTORY OF EUROPE. 9Э поЫе foreheads ; it had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that...dark and profound mine from which he had extracted so vast a treasure of erudition.* Yet amidst all this stately presence was the eye riveted by the dauntless... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 pages
...allured Reynolds from the easel which has perpetuated so many noble foreheads; it had induced Panto suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted so vast a treasure of erudition.* Yet amidst all this stately presence was the eye riveted by the dauntless... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There apj>earcd the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir \ oc the throne had in secret plighted his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There apj>eared the voluptuous oharms of her to whom the heir oc the throne had in secret plighted his faith.... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parrf to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her J to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she,§ the » Gibbon.... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, 15 but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her J to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she,§ the beautiful... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesman, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours...extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure révèle est le résumé du talent de Macaulay; et le talent, comme le tableau, est tout anglais. too... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...treasure révèle est le résumé du talent de Macaulay; et le talent, comme le tableau, est tout anglais. too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massiv, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had... | |
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