 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 σελίδες
...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,...portraits in which were preserved the features of the beet and wisest Englishmen of two generations. They will recollect how many men who have guided the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1867 - 796 σελίδες
...chiffoniers with bric-d-brac. There is nothing to recall the " antique gravity of a college library, no shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages ; " but on the table you will find Miss Braddon's last novel. Nothing is wanting that upholstery, as... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 σελίδες
...drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelve* loaded with the varied learning of many lauds and many ages ; those portraits, in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen for two generations : they will recollect how many men, who have guided the politics of Europe, who... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 σελίδες
...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,...they will recollect how many men, who have guided the polities of Europe, who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence, who have put life into... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 262 σελίδες
...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,...preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen for two generations : they will recollect how many men, who have guided the politics of Europe, who... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 σελίδες
...gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise seems to fit all the capacities of his soul the slender...human nature" to look at that man, and to sympathise polities of Europe- — who have moved great assemblies by rcason and eloquence — who have put life... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 576 σελίδες
...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,...generations. They will recollect how many men who have guided tlic politics of Europe — who have moved great assemblies by reason and eloquence — who have put... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 344 σελίδες
...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 putlife into bronze and... | |
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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,... 
