 And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.  The Eclectic Review - Side 366redigert av - 1852Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 sider
...undiminished vigour when some traveller \ from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, I \ take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to] ' sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the world is constantly becoming more and more enlightened, and that this... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 sider
...Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to O sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the world is constantly becoming more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 sider
...undimiuished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take liis stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the world is constantly becoming more and more enlightened, and that this... | |
 | Charles Hursthouse - 1861 - 564 sider
...who made it— the cannibal herald of that inevitable traveller of Macaulay's, who, one day, is to stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. In 1820 Hongi, chief of the Ngapuhi tribe, New Zealand's cannibal Napoleon, accompanied Mr. Missionary... | |
 | Antoine Martinet - 1861 - 408 sider
...Catholic Church will be still young and vigorous, when one day, a traveller from New Zealand will sit on a broken arch of London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."— " No, it will not be so," was the reply of the eloquent Archbishop of New York; " but rather, the traveller... | |
 | Gavin Hamilton (schoolmaster.) - 1862 - 182 sider
...its vitality no one, who has read the famous description of the traveller from New Zealand " taking his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's," requires to be told. There is still a third empire which has emanated from Eome, more excel lent and... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 sider
...— " And she may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's". Whether the idea of this celebrated quotation is original or borrowed, I think may be safely explained... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 sider
...wrote, " And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." This image has been disentombed from one of the letters of Horace Walpole. The famous proverbial saying,... | |
 | 1863 - 972 sider
...rational conviction ; and we must leave him where he has complacently seated himself (p. 266), — on a broken arch of London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral. "L'Ouvrier's" article consists of statements which fact« do not justify. He is so conscious... | |
 | 1865 - 476 sider
...ago. Now, it " may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." So Lord Macaulay prophesied. And, should it happen so, it will be through the agency of that society... | |
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