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" There too was 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 decay. "
Histoire de la littérature anglaise: Les contemporains - Page 204
by Hippolyte Taine - 1864
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 65

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...
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The American Eclectic, Volume 3

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...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 1

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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

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...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

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...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 21

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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous, Volume 3

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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