 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 418 pàgines
...a loud huzza arose from the audience in the court. It was instantly echoed from without by a shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster Hall. a It passed with electrical rapidity from voice to voice along the infinite multitude who waited in... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 636 pàgines
...huzza from the audience in court " was echoed from without," says Sir James Mackintosh, " by a shout of joy which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster Hall;" but the most terrible echo of that shout, which resounded in the ears of the baffled tyrant, was that... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pàgines
...Diary, vol. ii. p. 179. Mackintosh carries the metaphor a little further; he describes — "A shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster." — p. 275. But still it is only a metaphor. Mr. Macaulay must be more precise and particular, and,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1846 - 574 pàgines
...than a loud huzza arose from je audience in the court. It was instantly echoed from without by a lout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof " Westminster Hall. It passed with electrical rapidity from voice to nee, along the infinite multitude... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 pàgines
...in the 3ourt. It was instantly echoed from without by a shout of joy, which sounded like a crack )f the ancient and massy roof of Westminster Hall.* It...the infinite multitude who waited in the streets, reaching the Temple in a few minutes. For a short time no nan seemed to know where he was. No business... | |
 | 1847 - 650 pàgines
...a loud huzza arose from the audience in the court. It was instantly echoed from without by a shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient...the infinite multitude who waited in the streets, reaching the Temple in a few minutes. For a short time no man seemed to know where he was. No business... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pàgines
...electrical rapidity from voice to voice, along he infinite multitude who waited in the streets, caching the Temple in a few minutes. For a short time no man seemed to know where he was. business was done for hours. The solicitorgeneral informed Lord Sunderland in the presence of the nuncio,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 pàgines
...a loud huzza arose from the audience in the court. It was instantly echoed from without by a shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster Hall.* Il passed with electrical rapidity from voice to voice along the infinite multitude who waited in the... | |
 | 1849 - 652 pàgines
...— Diary, vol. ii., p. 179. Mackintosh carries the metaphor a little further: he describes ' A shout of joy which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster.' — p. 275. But still it is only a metaphor. Mr. Macaulay must be more precise and particular, and,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pàgines
...Diary, vol. ii. p. 179. Mackintosh carries the metaphor a little further; he describes — "A shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster." — p. 270. But still it is only a metaphor. Mr. Macaulay must be more precise and particular, and,... | |
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No sooner were these words uttered than a loud huzza arose from the audience in the court. It was instantly echoed from without by a shout of joy, which sounded like a crack of the ancient and massy roof of Westminster Hall. 
