 With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 144by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have been mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have been mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment... | |
 | 1860 - 620 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried — to the Great Abbey which has during many years afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall." The funeral obsequies were marked by no outward pomp or display ; they were those of a private gentlemen... | |
 | 1852 - 638 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, aßiirded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...been shattered by the contentions of the great Hall." Mr. Macaulay has, himself, borne no mean part among " the chiefs of the eloquent war." He entered Parliament... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered...Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have been mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 750 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...been shattered by the contentions of the great Hall." Mr. Macaulay has, himself, borne no mean part among " the chiefs of the eloquent war." He entered Parliament... | |
 | 1855 - 604 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the GREAT ABIIEY, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustiious accusers. This was not to be." Far more serious are those instances scattered through the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried — to the Gréat Abbey which has during many years afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall." The funeral obsequies were marked by no outward pomp or display ; they were those of a private gentlemen... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried ; in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hull, lies Mr. Gladstone ; and is it odd that I sometimes say aloud to myself — ' When comes such... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 810 pages
...touchingly says, ' the great templo of Silence and Reconciliation, which for so many generations has given a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...been shattered by the contentions of the great hall.' I wanted also to observe the effect of the new regulations of Dean Stanley and the Chapter in flinging... | |
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