 | 1879 - 674 sayfa
...JF.KYLL. — In a letter to Whewell, Macaulay, speaking of the House of Commons, says it is a place " where . . . Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their age, were thought bores " (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 1878, second edition, vol. i. chap. iv.).... | |
 | 1879 - 566 sayfa
...JEKYLL. — In a letter to Whcwell, Macaulay, speaking of the House of Commons, says it is a place " where . . . Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their age, were thought bores " (Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 1878, second edition, vol. L chap. iv.).... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 sayfa
...succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dund'as succeeded and Burke failed; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails, where Erskine and Scarlett were...were thought bores, is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon me. I begin to like what others about... | |
 | James Routledge - 1876 - 650 sayfa
...succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were...were thought bores ; is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon me. I begin to like what others about... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 464 sayfa
...succeeded, and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded, and Burke failed; where Peel now succeeds, and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were...thought bores, — is surely a very strange place." If in the days of Mackintosh and Canning the House hated rhetoric, and was bent on transacting business,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 sayfa
...failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and Mackintosh failed ; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner-bells ; where...were thought bores, is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the placo growing upon me. I begin to like what others about... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 sayfa
...failed ; where Peel succeeds and Mackintosh fails; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinnerbells ; and where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their time, are thought bores," — was surely a strange place enough, and fitted to try any man's metal. In this,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1881 - 536 sayfa
...succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were...were thought bores, is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon me. I begin to like what others about... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1881 - 536 sayfa
...succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were...of their time, were thought bores, is surely a very stränge place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon nie. I begin to like what... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 sayfa
...Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed; whore Peel now succeeds and Mackintosh failed ; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner-bells ; where...were thought bores, is surely a very strange place. And yet I feel the whole character of the place growing upon me. I begin to like what others about... | |
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A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ; where Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails ; where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner-bells ; where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly... 
