 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 318 páginas
...lines of that long correspondence. On the twentieth of February William was ambling on a favourite horse, named Sorrel, through the park of Hampton Court....Scotland stood to each other was at best precarious, and ofien unfriendly, and that it might be doubted whether, in an estimate of the British power, the resources... | |
 | 1861 - 850 páginas
...slightest shock. He felt that his time was short, and grie%'cd with a grief such as only noble spii-its feel, to think that he must leave his work but half...was possible that he might still live until one of liis plans should be carried into execution. He had long known that the relation in which England and... | |
 | 1861 - 816 páginas
...Lord Macaulay's latest and most ambitious work, he describes his pet hero, William III., as grieving, "with a grief such as only noble spirits feel, to...think that he must leave his work but half finished." The parallel therein suggested few even of his lordship's unfriendliest critics will be inclined, in... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 páginas
...stumbled on the mole-hill, and went down on his knees. The king fell off, and broke his collar bone. The bone was set, and he returned to Kensington in...one of his plans should be carried into execution The king meanwhile was sinking fast. Albemarle had arrived at Kensington from the Hague, exhausted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 páginas
...stumbled on the mole-hill, and went down on his knees. The King fell off, and broke his collar bone. The bone was set ; and he returned to Kensington in...feel, to think that he must leave his work but half finished.1 * * # * * # The King meanwhile was sinking fast. Albemarle had arrived at Kensington from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 páginas
...stumbled on the mole-hill, and went down on his knees. The King fell off, and broke his collar bone. The bone was set ; and he returned to Kensington in...feel, to think that he must leave his work but half finished.1 # * # * * * The King meanwhile was sinking fast. Albemarle had arrived at Kensington from... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 páginas
...my book." He already knew, tq use the expression which he applied to the dying William of Orange, " that his time was short, and grieved with a grief...think that he must leave his work but half finished." Gradually and unwillingly Macaulay acquiesced in the conviction that he must submit to leave untold... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 páginas
...unalterably your good friend, William." Those were the last lines of that long correspondence. On the 20th of February William was ambling on a favorite horse,...feel, to think that he must leave his work but half tiuished.(') ******* The king, meanwhile, was sinking fast. Albemarle had arrived at Kensington from... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1877 - 418 páginas
...stumbled on the mole-hill, and went down on his knees. The King fell off, and broke his collar bone. The bone was set ; and he returned to Kensington in...precarious, and often unfriendly, and that it might be dcubted whether, in an estimate of the British power, the resources of the smaller country ought not... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 páginas
...weak to bear even a slighter shock, and he felt that his time was come, and grieved, says Macaulay, " with a grief such as only noble spirits feel," to...think that he must leave his work but half finished. " Now that this great prospect is opening before me, I do wish to stay here a little longer," were... | |
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The bone was set, and he returned to Kensington in his coach. The jolting of the rough roads of that time made it necessary to reduce the fracture again. To a young and vigorous man such an accident would have been a trifle. But the frame of William was... 
