 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
 | Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1908 - 478 páginas
...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,"... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1911 - 286 páginas
...to the discovery of its meaning." i Macaulay, in his essay on Lord Holland, has a fine passage on " that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity...and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom," and draws attention to the peculiar character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1911 - 450 páginas
...to the lips in a city house with a thirty foot front, were not apt to feel perfectly at home in "a venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity of a college library was blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing room.''* Moreover, the... | |
 | 1911 - 918 páginas
...to the lips in a city house with a thirty foot front, were not apt to feel perfectly at home in "a venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity of a college library was blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing room."* Moreover, the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 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 Verrall Lucas - 1916 - 428 páginas
...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.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 1322 páginas
...busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber in...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.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 606 páginas
...busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber in...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.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 590 páginas
...busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber in...not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied Lady Holland 441 learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 páginas
...paintings, the carvings, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber in which all...learning of many lands and many ages ; those portraits in 172 173 which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations. They... | |
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