 ... 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 splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 124by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the St. Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock - hangings of Mrs. Montagu. And there the... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 pages
...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...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, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...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,...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
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1084 pages
...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...repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Mon tague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...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,...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...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...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | 1883 - 606 pages
...Chapel there ; a charge which was not deemed incompatible with his * ' There (at the Hastings Trial) were the members of that brilliant society which quoted,...exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mr. Montague.' — Macaulay. holding his livings on the other side of the border. He took up his abode... | |
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