Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 198
... carried the feeble ruins of his fine person and of his fine mind ; and there he had closed his chequered life under that humble roof and on that coarse pallet which the great satirist of the succeeding generation described in immortal ...
... carried the feeble ruins of his fine person and of his fine mind ; and there he had closed his chequered life under that humble roof and on that coarse pallet which the great satirist of the succeeding generation described in immortal ...
Page 395
... carried on . He had troubled himself about nothing but his forty lacs ; and , though he might disapprove of Sujah Dowlah's wanton barbarity , he did not think himself entitled to interfere , except by offering advice . This delicacy ...
... carried on . He had troubled himself about nothing but his forty lacs ; and , though he might disapprove of Sujah Dowlah's wanton barbarity , he did not think himself entitled to interfere , except by offering advice . This delicacy ...
Page 518
... carried by 288 votes to 89 . The 22nd of February was fixed for the funeral . The corpse , having lain in state during two days in the Painted Chamber , was borne with great pomp to the northern transept of the Abbey . A splendid train ...
... carried by 288 votes to 89 . The 22nd of February was fixed for the funeral . The corpse , having lain in state during two days in the Painted Chamber , was borne with great pomp to the northern transept of the Abbey . A splendid train ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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