 It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age ! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered, like a fairy tale...  The Earl of Beaconsfield - Page 170by James Anthony Froude - 1905 - 267 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wilfrid Meynell - Diaries - 1903 - 734 pages
...intend to elect Lord infinite Stanley. If he accepts the charge, I shall Romance." lose a powerfu| friend and colleague. It is a dazzling adventure for...people in the world, male and female, a few years hack were adventurers, exiles, and demireps. Vive la bagatelle! Adieu. "D." "February 7th, 1868. "The... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1916 - 660 pages
...will prefer Knowsley to the Parthenon, and Lancashire to the Attic plain. It is a privilege to Hve in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age ! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered, like... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1916 - 706 pages
...imaginative race, and, I fancy they will prefer Knowsley to the Parthenon, and Lancashire to the Attic plain. It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age ! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered, like... | |
 | Mrs. Humphry Ward - Authors - 1918 - 290 pages
...imaginative race, and I fancy they will prefer Knowsley to the Parthenon, and Lancashire to the Attic plain. It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like... | |
 | Mrs. Humphry Ward - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 424 pages
...imaginative race, and I fancy they will prefer Knowsley to the Parthenon, and Lancashire to the Attic plain. It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age ! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like... | |
 | Mrs. Humphry Ward - Authors - 1918 - 292 pages
...imaginative race, and I fancy they will prefer Knowsley to the Parthenon, and Lancashire to the Attic plain. It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like... | |
 | Mrs. Humphry Ward - Authors - 1918 - 288 pages
...It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like a fairy-tale. Sixteen years later came his famous resignation, in 1878, when the Fleet was ordered to... | |
 | Mrs. Humphry Ward - Authors - 1918 - 288 pages
...It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like a fairy-tale. Sixteen years later came his famous resignation, in 1878, when the Fleet was ordered to... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 832 pages
...Mrs. Willyams, his instinctive, spontaneous response of delight to the play of revolutionary power: It is a privilege to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered, like... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Politicians - 1923 - 312 pages
...worn it with a grace incomparable. Meanwhile, all was well with him. ' It is a privilege,' he wrote, ' to live in this age of rapid and brilliant events. What an error to consider it an utilitarian age ! It is one of infinite romance. Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like... | |
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