| English literature - 1841 - 606 pages
...generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favourite...terrace, the busts and the paintings; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pages
...which was in their youth the favorite resort of wits and beauties — of painters and poets — rf scholars, philosophers, and statesmen. They will then...many objects once familiar to them — the avenue mid the terrace, the busts and the paintings; the carving, the grotesque giMIng, and the enigmatical... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pages
...generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway-stations, for the site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favourite...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and rail-way stations, for the site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favourite resort of wits and beauties—of painters and poets— . of scholars, philosophers, and statesmen. They will then remember,... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...squares, and rail- way stations, for the. Bite of that dwelling which was in their youth the favorite resort of wits and beauties — of painters and poets...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable... | |
| John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling, which in their youth was the favourite resort of wits and beauties, of painters...they will then remember with strange tenderness many objectB familiar to them — the avenue and terrace, the butts and the paintings, and the carving,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 pages
...generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favourite...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 328 pages
...squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favorite resort of wits and beauties — of painters and poets...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar the last age with this, partaking... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 pages
...beauties—of painters and poets—of scholars, philosophers, and statesmen. They will then remember, wilh strange tenderness, many objects once familiar to...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar the last age with this, partaking... | |
| Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1849 - 270 pages
...squares, and railway stations, for the'site of that dwelling which was in their youth the favorite resort of wits and beauties — of painters and poets...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable... | |
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