 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition— a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation; but still...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still...the members of that brilliant society, which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition — a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still...rescued from the common decay. There were the members ofthat brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees under the rich peacock hangings... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 704 pages
...1800, and 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...1790, referring to his picture of Mrs. Sheridan as St. Cecilia. Alluding to this, Maoanlay styles her "the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by lore and music, art had rescued from the common decay." Sir Joshua calls it " the best picture he had... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...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 splendid. There appeared the volnptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too,... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition — a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation ; but still...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 692 pages
...describing the persons present at the trial of Warren Hastings, writes (Essays, vol. iii. p. 447.) : — " There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful...and music, Art has rescued from the common decay." Who is the person here designated ? by what artist is the picture? and where is the picture now ? Was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 588 pages
...extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...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 splendid. There apj>earcd the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir \ oc the throne had in secret plighted his... | |
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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. 
