 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 108by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 125 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of eo many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...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,...Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mind from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition — a treasure too often buried in the... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...the oppressor of Africa. The spectacle had lured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved for us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he extracted a vast treasure of erudition. There appeared... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...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,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 pages
...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,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...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,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...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...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many 142 writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 498 pages
...greatest painter 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,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, —... | |
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