 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 ページ
...considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer :—the dawn began... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 ページ
...considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer : — the dawn began... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1827 - 632 ページ
...Anti-Machiavelli was a French Protestant. During the Bloomy and disnsti'ous centuries which followed the downi'al of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than ¡my other part of \Vnstcrn Kurope, the traces of ancient civilization. The night which descended upon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 ページ
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfal of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance and ferocity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 ページ
...considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed...which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer:—the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from... | |
 | 1848 - 468 ページ
...connect the train of ancient with that of modern civilization; for, as one has beautifully said, " The night which descended upon her was the night of...the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." Another grand purpose, doubtless was, the coalescing and uniting the nations under one supreme power,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1850 - 412 ページ
...at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfal of the Koman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree...of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance and ferocity... | |
 | 1852 - 780 ページ
...considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer:—the dawn began... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 424 ページ
...a countryman of our own, Cardinal Pole. The author of the Anti-Machiavelli was a French Protestant. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Eoman Empire, Italy had preIt is, therefore, in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those... | |
 | William Hanna - 1858 - 390 ページ
...class the Grammatici ever died out in Europe. Lord Macaulay has justly observed regarding Italy, " The night •which descended upon her was the night...the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon."* We know that the Grarnmatici flourished in the middle ages in the Greek Empire, and it is probable... | |
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During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was... 
