 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive...shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." The article on Hastings was soon followed by another on Frederick the Great, and Macaulay was, for a time,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive...— shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS. SECOND READING. am'pli-tude, wideness. ar-raign' (ar-rdn 1 ), to accuse.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive...— shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. LORD MACAULAY. IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS. SECOND READING. am'pli-tude, wideness. ar-raign' (ar-rdn'),... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...society which quoted, critisised, and exchanged repartees under the peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...himself, had carried the Westminster election against the palace and the treasury, shone around Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." Here is reference to the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. 7. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose, lips, more persuasive...shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The Essays of Thomas Carlyle, for scholarship, for genuine philosophical insight into the nature of men... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings 15 of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...treasury, shone round Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. 20 The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiaua, Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 pages
...which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than...election against palace and treasury, shone round Gecrgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive...treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. 8. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was,... | |
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... beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees,... 
