 It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5301887Full view - About this book
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...and sold her for 5s. ?" " It is now the fashion" says Macaulay, " to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse — when men died faster in the purest country air than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns — and... | |
 | Theology - 640 pages
...first endeavours." ENGLAND AS IT WILL BE. IT la now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very eight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; and when men died faster in the purest country... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...faith and praise, are, if we may trust Macaulay, the follies of the sentimentalist. In those ages " noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the Golden Age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern work-house, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 546 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the Golden Age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1849 - 542 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the Golden Age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of com- ;' forts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
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