 | 1867 - 252 pages
...coloring — the opening of the impeachment of Warren Hastings — where " were collected together grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the...representatives of every science and of every art." Of all that splendid audience, it is not likely that a single one is now alive after the lapse of seventy-eight... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleiles were crowded by an audience such as rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of... | |
 | John Blaikie - 1868 - 336 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pages
...The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by such an audience as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....There were seated around the queen the fair-haired daughters of the house of Brunswick. " Then follows a long description of Reynolds the painter, and... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 498 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together from all parti of a great, free, enlightened and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning,... | |
 | 1869 - 204 pages
...historian, ' There were gathered together from all parts of a great, free, and enlightened empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and every art.' One great and paramount excellence it had, more than croquet, more than picnics, more even... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit nnd learning, the representatives of every science and of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator....There were gathered together, from all parts of a grc-at, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the... | |
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Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all... 
