 ... for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility,...  A Primer of English Literature - Page 116by Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams wero heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out , smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. liaising his voice till... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 588 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of incontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard : and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1866 - 526 pages
...not unwilling to display their taste and sensi5 bility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice, till... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs, Sheridan was carried out in a fit. 12. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state « uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round ; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs, Sheridan was carried out in a fit. 11. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out ; smelling bottles were...handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard ; and Mrs, Sheridan was carried out in a fit. 12. At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice... | |
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