Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 páginas |
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... century of study and meditation . But it is not thus with music , with painting , or with sculpture . Still less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may ...
... century of study and meditation . But it is not thus with music , with painting , or with sculpture . Still less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may ...
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... centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- pire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater de- gree than any ... century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumphed over the abili- ties ...
... centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- pire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater de- gree than any ... century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumphed over the abili- ties ...
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... century came forth the Di The operations of the commercial machine vine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest were facilitated by many useful and beautiful work of imagination which had appeared since inventions . We doubt whether any ...
... century came forth the Di The operations of the commercial machine vine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest were facilitated by many useful and beautiful work of imagination which had appeared since inventions . We doubt whether any ...
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... century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among ...
... century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among ...
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... century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the most experienced generals ... centuries . Italy , as we have already remarked , the grow- Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A ing power of ...
... century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the most experienced generals ... centuries . Italy , as we have already remarked , the grow- Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A ing power of ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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Página 287 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 16 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 16 - He had been wrested 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 16 - 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 401 - 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.
Página 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Página 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Página 65 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.
Página 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 16 - ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.