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... Civil service guide - Página 97por Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1872 - 178 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Patrick Weston Joyce - 1871 - 170 páginas
...decorum, hardly to be ex,'erle.l from a man a groat part of whose life had been passed among thieve-, and beggars in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitaU. SPECIMEN OF ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. JThe candidate is required to copy the passage sct before... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 718 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1875 - 158 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always grotesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....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 - 1880 - 498 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....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 - 1880 - 682 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....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 - 1880 - 844 páginas
...always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humor rich and joyous, yet not without nn occasional! tinge of amiable sadness. About everything...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 - 1880 - 684 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace arid decorum hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves... | |
| 1883 - 492 páginas
...his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional touch of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote,...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.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 796 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum, haidly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars,... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 páginas
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always grotesque, his humor rich and joyous, » yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walk-25 ers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals.... | |
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