 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,...  A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 - Page 292by John Timbs - 1864Full view - About this book
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...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 - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...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 - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...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 - England - 1849 - 262 pages
...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 - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...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 - English literature - 1855 - 576 pages
...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 pages
...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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