 ... precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features,...  Warren Hastings - Page 159by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Foss - 1874 - 346 pages
...the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant...election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgania, Duchess of Devonshire. The sergeants made proclamation : Hastings advanced to the bar, and... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 pages
...exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose liis, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried...treasury, shone round Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. ' 1 This evocation of the national history, glory, and constitution forms a picture of a unique kind.... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant...criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock-hangings of Mr. Montague; and there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pages
...his magnificent description of Westminster Hall, at the opening of the trial of Warren Hastings: u And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." THE EARL OF CHATHAM. The following epigram, from Owen's " Weekly Chronicle" for 1761, appeared at the time... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...the opening of the trial of Warren Hastings : •• And there the ladies whose lips, more pertuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried the Westminster...election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgians, I >i:clu •--. of Devonshire." THE EARL OF CHATHAM. The following epigram, from Owen's... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant...rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there * Gibbon. t Samuel Parr, a clergyman and man of learning, but hardly the " greatest scholar of the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 pages
...race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant...criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 pages
...Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.3 There were the members of that brilliant society which...criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there, among the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those... | |
 | Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up6 by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.10 There were the members of that brilliant society which...criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings" of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose ltps, more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 pages
...Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.3 There were the members of that brilliant society which...criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there, among the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those... | |
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