 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 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 had in secret piighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 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...criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, nnd 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. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague, and there the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir •-•t' the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighteil up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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...secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beauiiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...still precious, nussivi-. and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir "t the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautifnl mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted u)i liy love... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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...criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more perauasive than those of Fox... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 532 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, If) but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her \ to whom the heir of the...she,§ the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up 20 by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
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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... 
