 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 566
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...historian, an antiquary, a theologian, a preacher, .1 pamphleteer, a debater, and an active political leader ; and in every one of those characters made... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 772
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widows. Yet Burnct, though open in many respects to ridicule, and even to serious censure, was no contemptible... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 732
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the breadth of his shoulders, the thick 1687. ness °f hi8 calves, and his success in matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widows.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Страниц: 540
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on 'the...matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widows. Ye'. Burnet, though open in many respects to ridicule, and even to serious censure, was no contemptible... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - Страниц: 348
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...reading various and most extensive. He was at once an historian, an antiquary, a theologian, a preacher, a pamphleteer, a debater, and an active political... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1859 - Страниц: 480
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...matrimonial projects on amorous, and opulent widows." What a monster ! Surely these last named fortunate accessories alone protected him from n simultaneous... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1859 - Страниц: 580
...afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...matrimonial projects on amorous, and opulent widows." What a monster ! Surely these last named fortunate accessories alone protected him from a simultaneous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - Страниц: 1052
...sometime with more pleasantry than delicacy, • !the breadth of his shoulders, the thickness; < I his calves, and his success in matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widows. V-.t Burnet, though open in many respects fci ri (',cule, and even to serious censure, was no contemptible... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1867 - Страниц: 794
...inexhaustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor 1687. Сн. VU. did his enemies omit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the breadth of his shoulders, the thickness of his calve?, and his success in matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widows. Yet Buraet, though open... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - Страниц: 568
...afforded incxh xustible subjects of ridicule to the Tories. Nor did his enemies o nit to compliment him, sometimes with more pleasantry than delicacy, on the...success in matrimonial projects on amorous and opulent widow?. Ye1. Burnet, though open in many respecta to ridicule, and even to serious censure, was no... | |
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... dramatists have agreed to ascribe to Irish adventurers. His high animal spirits, his boastfulness, his undissembled vanity, his propensity to blunder, his provoking indiscretion, his unabashed audacity, afforded inexhaustible subjects of ridicule... 
