Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and... The World's Famous Orations - Page 55edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted liis faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a•beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...labours in that dark and profound mite from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often...precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the volnptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he. had extracted...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There apj>earcd the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir \ oc the throne had in secret plighted his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1078 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There apj>eared the voluptuous oharms of her to whom the heir oc the throne had in secret plighted his faith.... | |
| J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate /matures, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There, were the members... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parrf to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her J to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she,§ the » Gibbon.... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr f to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, 15 but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her J to whom... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, 15 but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her J to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she,§ the beautiful... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 514 pages
...statesman, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure révèle est le résumé du talent de Macaulay; et le talent, comme le tableau, est tout anglais. too... | |
| Howard Staunton - Education - 1865 - 622 pages
...occupied in the sacred duties of his profession, and in what Lord Macaulay calls "his labours in that dark and profound mine, from which he had extracted...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid." Parr's best known works are his epitaphs, his Spital Sermon, his vindication of Fox, his Letter from... | |
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