 With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.  Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pagina 89door Sydney Smith - 1856 - 458 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Lamb - 1837 - 868 pagina’s
...carving, the grotesque giMIng, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recal. that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity...singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could doviso to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those ehnlvee loaded with the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings ; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable...portraits in which were preserved the features of the beet and wisest Englishmen of two generations. They will recollect how many men who have guided the... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pagina’s
...chiffoniers with bric-d-brac. There is nothing to recall the " antique gravity of a college library, no shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages ; " but on the table you will find Miss Braddon's last novel. Nothing is wanting that upholstery, as... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 pagina’s
...paintings, and the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar tenderness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which...drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelve* loaded with the varied learning of many lauds and many ages ; those portraits, in which were... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper - 1847 - 746 pagina’s
...is printed from a copy put into type, and corrected by Lord Brougham, as long ago as Nov. 1835. • "That venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college mis so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellUh a drawing-room."... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pagina’s
...terrace, the busts and the paintings; the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the ancient gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with, all that female grace and wit... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1851 - 328 pagina’s
...achievements. To appreciate the master of Holland-house, it was necessary, we were informed, to enter " that venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity...and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom," and to listen with rapt and enchanted ear, now to a discussion upon the last debate, now to comments... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pagina’s
...in Macaulay'e picture of the gifted and noble group of men who used to assemble at Holland House in that " venerable chamber, in which all the antique...and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room." Tooke. He was subpoenaed as a witness for the prisoner, and asked as to his recollection of certain... | |
 | Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pagina’s
...gallery of Holland House, (' that venerable chamber, iu which all the antique ' gravity of a college was so singularly blended with all that female ' grace...and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room,') he recited that passage to Lord Melbourne and the late Lord Holland, when the latter said it brought... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 pagina’s
...achievements. To appreciate the master of Holland-house, it was necessary, we were informed, to enter " that venerable chamber in which all the antique gravity...and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room," and to listen with rapt and enchanted ear, now to a discussion upon the last debate, now to comments... | |
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