 | Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pagine
...mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recal. 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 doviso to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those ehnlvee loaded with the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pagine
...enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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 pagine
...mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper - 1847 - 746 pagine
...long ago as Nov. 1835. • "That venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college mis so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellUh a drawing-room." 1834. That large portions of such demesne lands, and particularly CLAYTON... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 pagine
...rich jewel in an Ethiop's fondness, they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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 pagine
...mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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 pagine
...mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pagine
...you d— — d first.'7 — Brougham! s Statesman. EVENINGS AT HOLLAND HOUSE. In the Edinburgh Review is a glowing picture of the evenings at Holland House...embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not nnmoved; those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages ; those portraits... | |
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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. 
