With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved,... A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 - עמוד 292מאת John Timbs - 1864תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| James Cotter Morison - 1896 - 212 דפים
...gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect,...recollect how many men who have guided the politics of Europe—who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence—who have put life into bronze and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 דפים
...gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect,...those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lauds and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 684 דפים
...gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect,...with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.... | |
| James Cotter Morison - 1899 - 212 דפים
...singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. Tiny will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded...were preserved the features of the best and wisest 1 Hours in a Library, by L. Stephen, 3rd series. Englishmen of two generations. They witt recollect... | |
| Alfred Henry Malan - 1899 - 432 דפים
...singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to establish a drawing-room. He writes : "They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded...which were preserved the features of the best and i wisest Englishmen of two generations. They will recollect how many men who-have guided the politics... | |
| Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1908 - 476 דפים
...Macaulay calls it, with " shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages," and portraits "in which were preserved the features of...the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations," was originally a portrait gallery. Lord Holland's accumulated books banished the pictures into other... | |
| Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1908 - 478 דפים
...Hayter — an interesting group. The library, " that venerable chamber," as Macaulay calls it, with " shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages," and portraits "in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations,"... | |
| Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1908 - 508 דפים
...Hayter — an interesting group. The library, " that venerable chamber," as Macaulay calls it, with " shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages," and portraits "in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations,"... | |
| James Cotter Morison - 1909 - 220 דפים
...gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect,...the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations. T/tey will recollect how many men who have guided the politics of Europe — who have moved great assemblies... | |
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