The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire,... Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 169by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience, sach as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of...grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the Queen the fair-haired... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pages
...bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience, snch as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of...grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the Queen the fair-haired... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by such an audience as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of...gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, and enlightened realm, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every... | |
| 1853 - 458 pages
...with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by suoh an audience as rarely has excited the fears or emulation of an orator. There were gathered together,...parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous realm, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and every... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by such an audience as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of...gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, and enlightened realm, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every... | |
| George Williams Fulcher - 1856 - 266 pages
...those of the poet, winged their way with pleasure." of Warren Hastings. That memorable event which " gathered together, from all parts of a great, free,...grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art," allured Gainsborough from his easel. " Sitting... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulations of an orator. There were gathered together, from all...prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learni/ig, the representatives of every science and of every irt. There were seated round the Queen... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulations of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the cmulations of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...Wales, conspicuous by hia fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as...grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the queen the fair-haired... | |
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