 Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 411806Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 512 pages
...heavy-paced Horatio — heavens, what a tranfition 1 — it feemed as if a whole century had been ftept over in the tranfition of a fingle fcene ; old things...done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly dellined to difpel the barbanfms and bigotry of a taftelefs age, too... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene ! Old things were done away ; and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...transition!—it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene! Old things were done away; and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...a transition!) it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the space of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...transition ! it seemed as if a whole century had heen " stepped over in the passage of a single scene ; old " things were done away, and a new order at once brought " forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel " the barbarisms of a tasteless age, too long superstitiously... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...transition !) it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the space of a single scene ; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...transition ! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 pages
...transition ! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age,... | |
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