 | 1833 - 1032 sider
...light up when they mean to express great joy and magnificence for a great event, their very splendour is a part of their excellence. We, upon our feasts, light up our whole city. We, in our feasts, invite all the world to partake them. Mr Hastings feasts in tin1... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 558 sider
...when they mean to express great joy anil great magnificence for a great event, their very splendour is a part of their excellence. We upon, our feasts...Hastings feasts alone ; Mr. Hastings feasts like a wild heast ; he growls in the comer over the dying and the dead, like the tigers of that country, who drag... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 562 sider
...when they mean to express great joy and great magnificence for a great event, their very splendour is a part of their excellence. We upon our feasts...corner over the dying and the dead, like the tigers ot- that country, who drag their prey into the jungles. Nobody knows of it, lili he is brought into... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 sider
...light up when they mean to express great joy and magnificence for a great event, their very splendour is a part of their excellence. We, upon our feasts, light up our whole city. We, in our feasts, invite all the world to partake them. Mr Hastings feasts in the... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 sider
...light up when they mean to express great joy and magnificence for a great event, their very splendour is a part of their excellence. We, upon our feasts, light up our whole city. We, in our feasts, invite all the world to partake them. Mr Hastings feasts in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 556 sider
...when they mean to express great joy and great magnificence for a great event, their very splendour ehole capital city : we in our feasts invite all the world to partake them. Mr. Hastings feasts ia... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - 366 sider
...devoted houses than to be mentioned in any civilised company." India called out his richest tones — "Mr. Hastings feasts in the dark; Mr. Hastings feasts...alone; Mr. Hastings feasts like a wild beast" . . . He ran through every note in the scale, from the towering scorn of "Lofty, my Lords!" to the elaborate... | |
 | Philip Ayres - 1997 - 308 sider
...calamity, like a famine or a pestilence on a country.'171 His natural habitat is the Virgilian underworld: 'Mr Hastings feasts in the dark; Mr Hastings feasts...that country, who drag their prey into the jungles ... His is the entertainment of Tantalus, it is an entertainment from which the sun hid his light.'172... | |
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We upon our feasts light up this whole capital city: we in our feasts invite all the world to partake them. Mr. Hastings feasts in the dark; Mr. Hastings feasts alone; Mr. Hastings feasts like a wild beast... 