 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 420 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. The Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...quoted, criticized, 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. 5. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 pages
...exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague.4 And there the ladies whose 20 lips,'' more persuasive than those of Fox himself,...carried the Westminster election against palace and 1 Greatest scholar. — Rev. Samuel Parr (1747-1825), the most distinguished classical scholar of his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 pages
...quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiana 20 Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar and bent his... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 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...Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone around Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire." — Macaulay: "Warren Hastings." IV. Comment on the following... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1894 - 592 pages
...him, in all respects save one, is too true, too graphic, to be omitted. The accused " was not indeed unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive...populous country, had made laws and treaties, had seat forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he ha J so borne himself,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...himself, had carried the Westminster election against 1 Mrs. Fitzherbert. 2 Mrs. Sheridan. palace and treasury, shone round Georgians, Duchess of Devonshire.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 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 Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 262 pages
...quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiana 20 Duchess of Devonshire. The Sergeantsnrade proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar au^BHlM|is..knce.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich pea- 20 cock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those...treasury, shone round Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. The Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced 25 to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed... | |
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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... 
