 | Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love...from the common decay. There were the members of that brillant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged reparties, under the rich peacock-hangings... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...inelegant "ostentation ; but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the captivating charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged "repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. "Montague. And there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne...delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art haf rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1866 - 526 pages
...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 shc,§ the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation ; but «till precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne...There were the members of that brilliant society which 150 WARBEN HASTINGS. quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, ander the rich peacock hangings of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive and splendid. 6. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...injudicious and iiielegaut ostentation, but still precious, massive and splendid. 6. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 pages
...the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. There appeared the Toluptuous charms of Mrs. Fitzherbert, to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under... | |
 | John Blaikie - 1868 - 336 pages
...with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne...criticized, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montagu. And there the ladies, whose lips more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...still precious, massive, and splendid.1 There appeared the voluptuous charms of her (Mrs. JFitzherberfy to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted...was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race (Mrs. Sheridan), the Saint Cecilia (so painted by Reynolds], whose delicate features, lighted up by... | |
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Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and... 
