 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.  Literary Sketches and Letters - Página 237de Charles Lamb - 1848 - 306 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1869 - 724 páginas
...lin.-l.and the paintings, the carvings, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blend"! with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 páginas
...busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...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.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1871 - 346 páginas
...achievements. To appreciate the master of Holland-house, it was necessary, we were informed, to enter " that venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity...and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom," and to listen with rapt and enchanted ear, now to a discussion upon the last debate, now to comments... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 598 páginas
...paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library w\s so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 páginas
...busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...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.... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 páginas
...those who, with him, can indulge in memories of the library of Holland House : — " With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with tho various learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were 51 preserved the... | |
 | Marie Liechtenstein (Pcesse.) - 1874 - 608 páginas
...immortalised, together with some of those assembled within its walls, by Macaulay in the following words : — with all that female grace and wit could devise to...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.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1875 - 590 páginas
...and the paintings, the carvings, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...busts and the pointings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber,...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 564 páginas
...carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recal that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singu1 t;-!y blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They... | |
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