 The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3041857Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pagini
...of Lord Macaulay's New Zealander has been discovered in a letter from Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, ' At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit...Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.' The New Zealander first came upon the stage in 1840, in a review of Kanke's ' History of the Popes... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1892 - 542 pagini
...next AUGUSTAN AGE will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico and a Newton at Peru " ! It is nearly a hundred and seventeen years since this passage came from the pen of Horace Walpole.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1879 - 488 pagini
...discovered in a letter from Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, ' At last some curious traveller from Lima will nsit England, and give a description of the ruins of St....Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.' The New Zealander first came upon the stage in 1 840, in a review of Ranke's 'History of the Popes;'... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1879 - 252 pagini
...next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil in Mexico, and a Newton in Peru." In the following pages we propose to tell the story of the first... | |
 | Eliezer Edwards - 1882 - 684 pagini
...next Augustine Age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York; and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Tewton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will iit England, and give a description of... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagini
...weep a people inurncd and their greatness changed into an empty name ? — Volney's Ruins, Ch. ii. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the mins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbee and Palmyra. — Horace Walpolu, Letttr to Hason,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1884 - 996 pagini
...tho other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xe-nophon at Now York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last tome curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and gire a description of tho ruins of St. Paul'»,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 342 pagini
...half a century or more before, may be found this similar sentence : " At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbee and Palmyra." Every reader should be familiar with that most remarkable story A Man of patriotism,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1891 - 478 pagini
...next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a...a description of the ruins of St. Paul's like the edition of Balbec and Palmyra.' One of the many suggestive passages in these valuable letters which... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagini
...The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a...description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra. There can be no doubt that this is the identical individual, — Macaulay's own... | |
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