 | 1903 - Počet stránok 1186
...for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." iud. Macanlay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. p. 363. Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, — I have dined to-day.3 Eecipe... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - Počet stránok 314
...later life he even improved. Sydney Smith said that " he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before...that make his conversation perfectly delightful." Though Macaulay lived in the centre of the literary and political world, and took an active part in... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - Počet stránok 800
...he is like a book in breeches. . . . Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before...what is far better and more important than all this, that I believe Macaulay to be incorruptible. You might lay ribbons, stars, garters, wealth, titles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - Počet stránok 824
...Sydney Smith said of him on his return from India: " His enemies might have said before that he talked too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence,...that make his conversation perfectly delightful." It was Sydney Smith too, who, speaking of his enormous reading, said there were no limits to his knowledge... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - Počet stránok 832
...Sydney Smith said of him on his return from India : " His enemies might have said before that he talked too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence,...that make his conversation perfectly delightful." It was Sydney Smith too, who, speaking of his enormous reading, said there were no limits to his knowledge... | |
 | Florence Howe Hall - 1916 - Počet stránok 144
...the fact that the great historian died before our time: "Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful," We must all regret that Madame de Stael ditl not live a hundred years later, for she was not only the... | |
 | 1918 - Počet stránok 708
...silence." — HABBIET MABTINEAU, "Biographical Studies." He is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before...silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. — TBEVKLTAW, quoting Sydney Smith. "I am afraid I cannot say much for my ancestor, James II." "Your... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - 1918 - Počet stránok 712
...ПЛВШЕТ МлнTINEAU, "Biographical Studies." lie is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before...silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. — TBEVELYAN, quoting Sydney Smith. "I am afraid I cannot say much for my ancestor, James II." "Your... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - Počet stránok 354
...Lamb might carry it off by looking grave and insisting on the first. Sydney Smith said of Macaulay, "He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful." In his mind Smith thought, "If he would only be silent for an instant." In his speech he would have... | |
 | 1896 - Počet stránok 734
...time. The Artist. "Still I wish one might say of the Contributor as Sidney Smith said of Macaulay, ' He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.' " The Typewriter. " There is a gentleman out here that would like to have a short conversazione with... | |
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Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly... 
