 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings 15 of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips,...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
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips,...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
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips,...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
...brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips,...treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. 8. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 440 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips,...election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgians Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hanging of Mrs. Montague; and there the ladies whose lips,...Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. Usually, in objective description, it will promote unity and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 362 pages
...brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hanging of Mrs. Montague ; and there the ladies whose lips,...Westminster election against palace and treasury, shoue around Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. Usually, in objective description, it will promote unity... | |
 | sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 456 pages
...governor. Everything else was overturned and polluted by the plough. HH MILMAN. III. WARREN HASTINGS. The culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great...presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, and made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high... | |
 | E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pages
...beginning of the trial of Warren Hastings: "And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive than Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election...— shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." We who have lately seen the portraits of Hardwick can understand how they shone like stars round the... | |
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... too was she, the 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, criticized, and exchanged... 
