 Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the...  Critical and historical essays - Page 538by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca, and she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. — MACAULAY. Mile. Once used for a measure of time, as well as space. And tho' I stond there a mile... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 pages
...eloquence still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. if * # if if It is impossible to deny that the polity of the Church of Rome is the very masterpiece... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 pages
...Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in uncliminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall,...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. # * :M * * It is impossible to deny that the polity of the Church of Rome is the very masterpiece of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 pages
...Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca, And she may still exist in uneliminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall,...to Protestantism, and unfavourable to Catholicism. We wish that we could think so. But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well founded expectation.... | |
 | 1924 - 970 pages
...Macaulay, in his essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, gives us a forecast of a dim and distant future, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. Macaulay was a patriotic Englishman, and his little sally of fancy is not to be taken seriously. Were... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1976 - 436 pages
...(p. 235) New Zealander of the grand English History. An allusion to Macaulay's prophecy that one day 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'. The prediction occurs not in Macaulay's History of England but in his essay ' Von Ranke', Edinburgh... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 pages
...structure of yet another kind. Joyce's list of some 600 misprints 1 " And she (the Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Joyce has given " Nuzuland " the backward colonial connotations of Zululand, and, presumably in recognition... | |
 | David Allan Hamer - 1990 - 404 pages
...1887), pp. 217-18. 43. In his Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, TB Macaulay prophesied a time "when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." 44. BI Coleman, ed., The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London and Boston: Routledge... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 pages
...of the capitals of her stately cathedrals, " or where a traveler from the then-advanced society of New Zealand "shall, in the midst of a vast solitude,...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." In his own form of the old concept of translatio imperii, Macaulay understood, without gloom or regret,... | |
 | Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe - 1995 - 266 pages
...would echo this poem in a famous passage in which he comfortably imagines a time in remote futurity when 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'.52 By then the war with Napoleon was a heroic memory and the vision of time's decay, taken... | |
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