 Thus there went out of the world,' to quote the concluding words of Lord Dufferin's account of his mother's death, ' one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished, wittiest, most loving, and lovable human beings that ever walked upon the earth....  The Quarterly Review - Stran 320uredili: - 1894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 strani
...personal loss which is his own inspiration. It was her desire that Mrs. Norton's monody on Lord Gilford should be inscribed on a tablet in Friern Barnet Church,...many ladies who have been beautiful, charming, witty, and good, but I doubt whether there have been any who have combined with so high a spirit, and with... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1894 - 324 strani
...DITFFERIN has given the world a picture it will not willingly let die. It is a portrait of his mother, " one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...lovable human beings that ever walked upon the earth." This, as my Baronite says, is the superlative of praise, and it might reasonably be suspected that... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1902 - 726 strani
...ennobling conditions. Again he wrote when chronicling her death : — Thus there went out of the world one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished, wittiest, most loving and lovable gathered round his closing years. The hateful war human beings that everwalkcduponjhe earth. There... | |
 | Baroness Helen Selina Blackwood Dufferin and Clandeboye, Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1894 - 460 strani
...she had laid Lord Giffbrd, and where a child of my own is resting. Thus there went out of the world one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...many ladies who have been beautiful, charming, witty, and good, but I doubt whether there have been any who have combined with so high a spirit, and with... | |
 | Charles Edward Drummond Black - 1903 - 486 strani
...the privilege of her acquaintance agrees with the following loving description in her son's memoir : One of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...many ladies who have been beautiful, charming, witty, and good, but I doubt whether there have been any who have, combined with so high a spirit, and with... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 910 strani
...many of the characteristics which he describes in her. 'Thus there went out of the world' (he says) 'one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...many ladies who have been beautiful, charming, witty, and good, but I doubt whether there have been any who have combined with so high a spirit, anJ with... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1905 - 382 strani
...calmly and tenderly, to his wife and their children. "Thus there went out of the world" (he says) " one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...many ladies who have been beautiful, charming, witty, and good, but I doubt whether there have been any who have combined with so high a spirit, and with... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1905 - 784 strani
...Office in the Liberal Administration, his mother died. " Thus there went out of the world " (he says) " one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...earth. There was no quality wanting to her perfection." Lord Dufferin was in very truth his mother's son. He was a Sheridan to his finger-tips — gay, witty,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 strani
...under-secretaryship at the India Office. During these years he lost the mother who — so he wrote himself — 'was one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...lovable human beings that ever walked upon the earth.' During the same period he married the lady who still survives, and to whom he was able to say, in the... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1907 - 394 strani
...Under-Secretaryship at the India Office. During these years he lost the mother who — so he wrote himself — " was one of the sweetest, most beautiful, most accomplished,...lovable human beings that ever walked upon the earth." During the same period he married the lady who still survives, and to whom he was able to say, in the... | |
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