 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 so. of their time, were...  Miscellanies - Page xiby Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1879 - 948 pages
...Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails—where Erskine and Scarlett were dinner bells—where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly so, of their time, were thought bores—is surely a very strange place.” What the House was in Macaulay's time it, in this respect,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Historians - 1876 - 430 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Historians - 1876 - 414 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed ; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Fine bindings - 1876 - 504 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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 - Electronic books - 1876 - 680 pages
...expecting him not to succeed in the House of Commons. A place, where Walpole succeeded and Addisou failed; where Dundas succeeded and Burke failed ;...Peel now succeeds and where Mackintosh fails; where Erskiue and Scarlett were dinner-bells ; where Lawrence and Jekyll, the two wittiest men, or nearly... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Authors, English - 1877 - 858 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 512 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 512 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 508 pages
...expecting him to fail than for expecting him to succeed in the House of Commons. A place where Walpole succeeded and Addison failed; where Dundas succeeded...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 652 pages
...JEKYLL.—In a letter to Whewell, Macaulay, speaking of the House of Cornmona, 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.... | |
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