 ... 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 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 too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful 10 race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...precious, massive, and splendid. 7. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There,...criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive than those of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 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 hanging of Mrs. Montague; and there the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 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,...music, art has rescued from the common decay. There werev the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 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...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 - 400 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, 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
...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... | |
 | 1890 - 714 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 too was she, the mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,... | |
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