 He is absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House, breathless and knocked up, and able to say nothing but " Oh dear, oh mercy." What's the matter ? being asked. " Oh, Macaulay."...  The North American Review - Página 5961879Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House breathless and knocked up, and...nothing but 'Oh dear! oh mercy:' What's the matter t being asked, 'Oh, Macaulay.' Then everyone said, ' That accounts for it ; you're lucky to be alive,'... | |
 | Macvey Napier - 1879 - 586 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House, breathless and knocked up, and...have ever yet been known in London, for Jack Campbell in the House of Lords is just what poor Tom is in private society. I don't believe, on this subject,... | |
 | 1879 - 470 páginas
...society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared." " I have seen people," he continues, " come in from' Holland House breathless and knocked up, and...matter ? being asked, ' Oh! Macaulay.' Then every one says : ' That accounts for it ; you're lucky to be alive,' " etc. (p. 403). He declares in the same... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 712 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House breathless and knocked up, and...What's the matter? being asked, 'Oh, Macaulay.' Then everyone said, ' That accounts for it ; you're lucky to be alive,' &c. Edinburgh is now celebrated... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 692 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House breathless and knocked up, and...nothing but 'Oh dear! oh mercy!' What's the matter I being asked, 'Oh, Macaulay.' Then everyone said, ' That accounts for it : you're lucky to be alive,'... | |
 | Sir Theodore Martin - 1883 - 556 páginas
...was of a piece with a passage in one of his letters published in the Macvey Napier Correspondence : " Edinburgh is now celebrated for having given us the...have ever yet been known in London, for Jack Campbell in the House of Lords is just what Tom Macaulay is in private society." 1849. COMPENSATION BILL. 435... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1884 - 362 páginas
...Life and Writings. An Autobiography. 2 vols., Svo. London, 1883. IV. -4 MA CA ULA Y. Conversation, up, and able to say nothing but " Oh dear, oh mercy."...accounts for it — you're lucky to be alive," etc. — LORD BROUGHAM, 1842 ("Correspondence of Macvey Napier").1 I used ... to look in during the course... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 480 páginas
...said Brougham, with his usual exaggeration, 'is now celebrated for having given us the two greatest bores that have ever yet been known in London, for Jack Campbell in the House of Lords is just what Tom Macaulay is in private society.' He had certainly very little... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 266 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House breathless and knocked up, and able to say nothing but, ' Oh dear ! oh mercy ! ' 1 What 's the matter ? ' being asked. ' Oh, Macaulay ! ' Then every one said, ' That accounts for... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 270 páginas
...absolutely renowned in society as the greatest bore that ever yet appeared. I have seen people come in from Holland House breathless and knocked up, and able to say nothing but, ' Oh dear 1 oh mercy ! ' ' What 's the matter ? ' being asked. ' Oh, Macaulay ! ' Then every one said, ' That... | |
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