 There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated...  Histoire de la littérature anglaise - Pągina 194per Hippolyte Taine - 1871Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1842 - 654 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, ihere never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calcu lated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pągines
...February 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...a. spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pągines
...locks, — terrible to behold. " There have been spectacles," says Mr. Macaulay, " more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...attractive .to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pągines
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never...a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pągines
...the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 644 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold,...then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there iiever was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pągines
...February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-np children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was... | |
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