 | Thomas Lynch - 1872 - 244 Seiten
...distinguished by a comma: as, "She may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveler from New-Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." 1 . If we delay until tomorrow what ought to be done... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1873 - 400 Seiten
...idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." As one reads this oracular announcement, one is ready... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1976 - 436 Seiten
...(p. 235) New Zealander of the grand English History. An allusion to Macaulay's prophecy that one day 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'. The prediction occurs not in Macaulay's History of... | |
 | Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 Seiten
...list of some 600 misprints 1 " And she (the Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Joyce has given " Nuzuland " the backward colonial... | |
 | David Allan Hamer - 1990 - 404 Seiten
...1887), pp. 217-18. 43. In his Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, TB Macaulay prophesied a time "when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." 44. BI Coleman, ed., The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 Seiten
...of the capitals of her stately cathedrals, " or where a traveler from the then-advanced society of New Zealand "shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." In his own form of the old concept of translatio... | |
 | Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe - 1995 - 266 Seiten
...would echo this poem in a famous passage in which he comfortably imagines a time in remote futurity when 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'.52 By then the war with Napoleon was a heroic memory... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...6824 Essays ... 'Von Rank,' She (the Roman Catholic Churchl may still exist in undiminished vigour in his secret soul, was ever sorry London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's. 6825 Essays ... 'Von Ranke' She [the Church of Rome!... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - 1998 - 456 Seiten
...Schlesinger (New York, 1953), 520. 2. The Roman Catholic Church "may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Von Ranke," Critical... | |
 | William Frank Buckley - 1998 - 340 Seiten
...to the papacy. He said of the Church, "She may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Ultimately, Newman concluded, one needs to judge... | |
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And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. 
