Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays: With a Memoir and an Index, Volumen1Hurd and Houghton, 1866 |
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... strong for him to resist ; and before he entered on the practice of his profession , he had , by one article in a review , passed at a bound to a conspicuous place among the writers of the time . : It might have been expected , from his ...
... strong for him to resist ; and before he entered on the practice of his profession , he had , by one article in a review , passed at a bound to a conspicuous place among the writers of the time . : It might have been expected , from his ...
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... strong and striking thoughts to rescue its brilliancy from the charge of superficiality . If the splendor of its rhetoric seemed consciously designed for display , this defect applies in great measure to Macaulay's rhetoric in general ...
... strong and striking thoughts to rescue its brilliancy from the charge of superficiality . If the splendor of its rhetoric seemed consciously designed for display , this defect applies in great measure to Macaulay's rhetoric in general ...
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... strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred by acts which his conscience prompted and his reason approved . He would not re- cant a single expression , much less a single opinion . 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall , " a ...
... strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred by acts which his conscience prompted and his reason approved . He would not re- cant a single expression , much less a single opinion . 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall , " a ...
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... strong , and tough polemic , who is thoroughly well furnished for combat , and who neither gives nor expects quarter . No tenderness to frailty interferes with the merciless severity of his judgments . His own political and personal ...
... strong , and tough polemic , who is thoroughly well furnished for combat , and who neither gives nor expects quarter . No tenderness to frailty interferes with the merciless severity of his judgments . His own political and personal ...
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... strong suspicions . 66 " " Cæsar drew up his figure from its ordinary state of graceful relaxation into an attitude of commanding dignity , and replied in a voice of which the deep and impassioned melody formed a strange contrast to the ...
... strong suspicions . 66 " " Cæsar drew up his figure from its ordinary state of graceful relaxation into an attitude of commanding dignity , and replied in a voice of which the deep and impassioned melody formed a strange contrast to the ...
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Página 246 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 256 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 256 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 256 - God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but then- uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them.
Página 245 - ... their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love, and victorious in war.* Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful, reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory...
Página 208 - Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements, would he have been able to combine those elements in...
Página 264 - ... that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.
Página 430 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 255 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away!
Página 354 - These fight like husbands, but like lovers those ; These fain would keep and those more fain enjoy ; And to such height their frantic passion grows That what both love both hazard to destroy. Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, And now their odours armed against them fly : Some preciously by shattered porcelain fall, And some by aromatic splinters die.