 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 464 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...low, and whether the lace on his hat must be broad sor narrow. In literature she gave law to the world. The fame of her great writers filled Europe. No... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's coat must be cut, how long big peruke must be, whether his heels must be high or low, and whether the lace on his hat must be... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...whether the lace on his hat must be broad or narrow. literature she gave law to the world. The fame of her great writers filled Europe. No other country... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...she, c'etait elle qui—" how, etc cut, quclle coupe devait avoir dcvait etre — 18 must, devaient. his hat must be broad or narrow. In literature she gave law 1 to the world. The fame of her great writers filled Europe. No other country could produce 2 a tragic... | |
 | P. Friedrich - 1870 - 216 pages
...prostrate themselves at her footstool." Her authority was supreme7 in all matters of good breeding,8 from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...hat must be broad or narrow. In literature she gave law9 to the world. The fame of her great writers lilled Europe. No other country could produce a tragic... | |
 | London univ, exam. papers - 1871 - 294 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...his heels must be high or low, and whether the lace of his hat must be broad or narrow. In literature she gave law to the world. The fame of her great... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1877 - 738 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...his heels must be high or low, and whether the lace CHAP, on his hat must be broad or narrow. In literature she gave law to the world. The fame of her... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1878 - 592 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...great writers filled Europe. No other country could produje a tragic poet equal to Kacine, a comic poet equal to Moliere, a trifler so agreeable as La... | |
 | 1878 - 632 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...long his peruke must be, whether his heels must be higb or low, and whether the lace of his hat must be broad 01» narrow. In literature she gave law... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1879 - 626 pages
...to prostrate themselves at her footstool. Her authority was supreme in all matters of good-breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's...world. The fame of her great writers filled Europe. iS.o other country could produce a tragic poet equal to Racine, a comic poet equal to Moliere, a trifler... | |
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Her authority was supreme in all matters of good-breeding, from a duel to a minuet. She determined how a gentleman's coat must be cut, how long his peruke must be, whether his heels must be high or low, and whether the lace on his hat must be broad or... 
