 His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote , serious or sportive , there was a certain natural grace and decorum...  Civil service guide - Page 97by Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1872 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pages
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , streetwalkers and merryandrews , in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals.... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 456 pages
...his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose lite had been passed among thieves and beggars, streetwalkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About every thing that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry-andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. Ahout everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - Civil service - 1868 - 82 pages
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....beggars, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of greit capitals. XIII. The man who was the originator of these calamities which afflicted his country... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - Civil service - 1871 - 136 pages
...narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness....squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. XIII. The man who was the originator of these calamities which afflicted his country so much was not... | |
 | Civil service - 1871 - 264 pages
...amusing, his deseriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not witheut an oceasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he...decorum, hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whese life had been passed among thieves and beggars in these squalid dens which are the reproach of... | |
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