 | Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 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 a common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, f the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love...criticized, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies —whose lips, more persuasive than those of... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her* to whom the heir of the...in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, f the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by... | |
 | 1887 - 644 pages
...tart or a ball to act as fag in the worst part of the prank. (Comment on the justice of this.) (7) The beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint...and music, art has rescued from the common decay. (8) The ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 186 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... | |
 | 1890 - 714 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 mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,... | |
 | 1891 - 120 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, uuder the rich peacock-hangings of mrs. montague, and there the... | |
 | 1891 - 120 pages
...injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but 1 still precious, massive, and splendid, there appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his 1 . faith, there too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the saint cecilia whose delicate... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 420 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... | |
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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... 
