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" ... 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 159
by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pages
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Warren Hastings, ed. by S. Hales

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 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 15 of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 156

1883 - 866 pages
...the speeches in Sallust and Livy, which he was set to translate by way of exercise. His versions, he of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mr. Montague." — Мяса*1ау. tells us, were more free than critical, to the...
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Pictorial records of remarkable events in the history of the world

World - 1884 - 560 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 Gecrgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ..., Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 440 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips,...election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgians Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 362 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hanging of Mrs. Montague ; and there the ladies whose lips,...Westminster election against palace and treasury, shoue around Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. Usually, in objective description, it will promote unity...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 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 hanging of Mrs. Montague; and there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself,...
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Time, Volume 2; Volume 13

Edmund Hodgson Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary (Abdy-Williams) Whishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1885 - 776 pages
...beginning of the trial of Warren Hastings : " And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive than Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election...— shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." We who have lately seen the portraits of Hardwick can understand how they shone like stars round the...
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TIME

E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pages
...beginning of the trial of Warren Hastings: "And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive than Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election...— shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." We who have lately seen the portraits of Hardwick can understand how they shone like stars round the...
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Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hanging of Mrs. Montague; and there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Pox himself, had carried the Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around Georgiana,...
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The Historical Reader: Embracing Selections from Standard Writers of Ancient ...

John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 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 society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the...
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