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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... "
The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan - Page 630
by Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866
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Historical Essays of Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 432 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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Proceedings of the New York State Stenographers' Association, Volumes 17-21

New York State Stenographers' Association - 1892 - 656 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 has res132 cued from a common decay. There were members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised,...
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Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 pages
...ostentation, lobut still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her 2 to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted...the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia9 whose delicate 15 features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the commo ndecay....
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Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 pages
...inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous 10 charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in...criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox...
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Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition: (advanced Course)

George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 252 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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The Shorthand Educator, Volume 4

1897 - 396 pages
...and inelegant ostentation, but (till precious, manire and •plendld. There appeared the roluptooua charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in...beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate feature*, lighted up by love and musk, art baa res\ ^ V--- V^ '"— *1 <r™ • r —f-'L-\~~~?-'l-\^_...
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The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All ..., Volume 8

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 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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Songs, Poems, & Verses

Baroness Helen Selina Blackwood Dufferin and Clandeboye, Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1894 - 460 pages
...was like looking in the face of a Seraph." Macaulay, in his Essay on Warren Hastings, says of her : " There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful...and music, art has rescued from the common decay." Her loveliness in all its unspeakable grace is still with us in the portraits of her by Romney, Gainsborough,...
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Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 262 pages
...inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous 10 charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in...criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 5

Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 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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