 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - 386 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague, and there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive than those...treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." You find this same mannerism also in Macaulay's " Speeches : " and Professor Wilson, in one of the... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hanging of Mrs. Montague ; and there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire." We are now transferred to the interior. The author describes... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 994 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...Fox himself, had carried the Westminster election ngainst palace and treasury, shone round Gcorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." Such were the spectators... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there / j/ j/ j/ and made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...military talents, have first subdued and afterwards plundered nations. BURKE : Imp. of W. Hastings. = 0苴 ioM A K C [T ڌ K . h a... :A * * { T X Qכ_ W9 b M sC, H+o and made laws and ireaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive than those...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
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive than those...— 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
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies — whose lips, more persuasive than those...— 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
...quoted, critisised, and exchanged repartees under the peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...himself, had carried the Westminster election against the palace and the treasury, shone around Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." Here is reference to the... | |
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... 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, under... 
