His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote , serious or sportive , there was a certain natural grace and decorum,... The civil service spelling book - Pàgina 96per Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1871 - 114 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pàgines
...grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy. But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pàgines
...grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy. But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , streetwalkers and merryandrews , in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals.... | |
| 1857 - 456 pàgines
...his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 pàgines
...grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy. But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pàgines
...grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy. But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, streetwalkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pàgines
...grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy. But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials...hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose lite had been passed among thieves and beggars, streetwalkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pàgines
...his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| 1865 - 342 pàgines
...his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pàgines
...picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. Ahout everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
| Civil service - 1871 - 264 pàgines
...amusing, his deseriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not witheut an oceasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he...decorum, hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whese life had been passed among thieves and beggars in these squalid dens which are the reproach of... | |
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