 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - 860 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1855 - 704 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to ' "The Commons," says Narcissus Luttrclt, "gave a great hum.'* " Le murmure qui est la marque d'applaudisscment... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1896 - 678 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to her lover." It was " the most terrible of all the ministers of death." But in 1796 arose the medical... | |
 | 1856 - 604 pages
...the hideous traces of its power ; turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1694 this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling, at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover." Thus mothers and lovers, husbands, fathers, brothers — in fact, every member of society, young or... | |
 | 1857 - 564 pages
...the hideous traces of its power ; turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden, objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection spread... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 348 pages
...hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1858 - 908 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1G94, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1858 - 502 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 496 pages
...the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
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... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which... 
