 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, anil priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 sidor
...on nobles and pries'*, they looked down wllh contempt : for they e*teemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creaUon, und priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. When hard words, jealousies, and fenrs Set... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1860 - 394 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 sidor
...on nobles and priests they looked clown with contempt i for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mys.erious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 sidor
...nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich 15 in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible 20 importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
 | Robert William Dale - 1902 - 336 sidor
...eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt ; for they deemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.' That is a great passage, with all its imperfections, and if we make one correction it describes the... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 480 sidor
...face of the earth. They did this in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion.") IV. (" The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged. On his slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest. He had been destined... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem prodnced in a civilized age. On Milton. 1825. Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. ibid. Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 136 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
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Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: For they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure,... 
