 | Frederick Sherlock - 1879 - 272 pages
...nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts; but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression,... | |
 | J. P. Munro-Fraser - 1880 - 682 pages
...of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the dimensions of misery, depression,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 pages
...to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
 | William Guest - 1880 - 244 pages
...mission more than when in Central Italy, his object was not to study art or find pleasure in beauty, " but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1246 pages
...scale -of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or to collate 'manuscripts ;— hut to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pages
...nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...all civilised nations down to the present time. Burke thus described him : " He visited all Europe to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
 | Edward Payson Thwing - 1891 - 74 pages
...grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collate medals or collect manuscripts but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infections of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions... | |
 | Gervase Smith - 1882 - 556 pages
...grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals or to collate MSS. ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain, to ' take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
 | Alfred Owen Smith - 1882 - 506 pages
...grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art ; not to collect medals or to collate MSS. ; but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain, to ' take the gauge and dimensions of misery,... | |
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