| England - 1849 - 792 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation ; but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1842 - 578 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation ; but still precious, massive and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation; but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...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... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation ; but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms...she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common... | |
| Electronic journals - 1881 - 704 pages
...the music published by Longman & Co." CJ (Dublin).— The lady referred to by Macaulay as " the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has recued from the common decay," was Eliza Ann Linley, the beautiful and accomplished ginger, commonly... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the volnptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in...faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beaotifal race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued... | |
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