 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 500 oldal
...certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said hefore (though 1 never did so ) that he talked rather too much : but...occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectlv delightful." The change for the worse in Macaulay's health was apparent even to those who... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 oldal
...said of him : " He is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps il, diviuest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To Take him for all in all, Macaulay was one of the noblest characters in English literature; generous... | |
 | sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1881 - 732 oldal
...; rescuing some from the poverty from which he long ago had set himself free, and consoling others never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes pf silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful." for the pangs of disappointed ambition... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 oldal
...is well known : "His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so), that he talks rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes...that make his conversation perfectly delightful;" and he said at another time, "To take Macaulay out of literature and society, and put him in the House... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 oldal
...said of him : " He is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of l lie has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful." Take him for... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 oldal
...left for it but to take off my flush and sit in my bones. Ibid. Macaulay is like a book in breeches He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Vol. ip 363. 1 The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and eren incapable of relishing... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1884 - 480 oldal
...country. " 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...silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. * * * Oh, yes! we both talk a great deal, but I don't believe Macaulay ever did hear my voice ! Sometimes,... | |
 | Enchiridion - 1885 - 292 oldal
...a book in breeches. ... He is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies may have said before (though I never did so) that he talked...that make his conversation perfectly delightful." An Overflow. Sydney Smith said of Macaulay that " he not only overflowed with learning, but stood in... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1885 - 448 oldal
...country. " 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...silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. * * * Oh, yes ! we both talk a great deal, but I don't believe Macaulay ever did hear my voice ! Sometimes,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1886 - 196 oldal
...from India, he was more agreeable than before he went. "His enemies," added Sidney, "might, perhaps, have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but no^he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful." Macaulay... | |
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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 delightful. 
