 It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5301887Full view - About this book
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 458 pages
...small mirror."" Mr. Macaulay remarks, that "It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...raise a riot in a modern workhouse; when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | 1915 - 288 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 510 pages
...discerns, and the humanity which remedies, them. " It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry ; when men... | |
 | 160 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 184 pages
...into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It 15 is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, 20 when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes... | |
 | 1871 - 484 pages
...wholly vague and dateless, in some period when, aa Macaulay has said, in a passage familiar to all, "noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry ; when men... | |
 | O. C. (ed.) - 1993 - 204 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in i modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher... | |
 | Josiah Strong - 1885 - 268 pages
..."noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, and farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse,1' and especially because few knights had " libraries as good as may now perpetually be found... | |
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