 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 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...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 Henry Nolan - 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - 386 pages
..."There was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of the brilliant society that quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 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... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 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...lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir to the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from common decay. There were the members of the brilliant society which quoted, critisised, and exchanged... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 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...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 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...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... | |
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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... 
