| Fashion - 468 pages
...is most endearing in social and domestic charities; hut with whatever is darkest in human destiny, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without oue mourner... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...there is no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated, not, aa in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 652 pages
...Monmouth were laid the remains of Jeffreys. In truth there is no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated, not, as...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...Macaulay, " there is no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is not there consecrated as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...Macaulay, " there fe no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is not there consecrated ties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office,...off: And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding Thither have been carried through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown ; not, aa in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...and with imperishable renown ; not, as in our humblest, churches and church-yards, with every thing that is most endearing. in social and domestic charities,...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of jailers, without one mourner... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...July 15. ; Barillon, July *?. with the savage triumph of implacable enemies , with the in' constancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration...miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame. Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner... | |
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