 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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 Mr. Montague; and there the... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1874 - 346 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 - 1874 - 568 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...Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up Iv love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1874 - 376 pages
...precious, massive and splendid. There appeared the ht voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir to the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There,...the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecelia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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 peacockhangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of herj to whem the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his...she,ยง 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 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 had in secret plighted his faith." There'too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features,... | |
 | Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...injudicious and inelegant5 ostentation, hut still6 precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.7 There too was she,8 the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 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 had in secret plighted his faith.2 There'too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate... | |
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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... 
