Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 páginas |
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... thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded ...
... thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poeti- cal genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded ...
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... thought ; that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with nisery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful ...
... thought ; that of Dante by intensity of feeling . In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with nisery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful ...
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... thought them likely to be tyrants . The ground on which they , in their famous resolution , de clared the throne vacant , was this , " that James had broken the fundamental laws of the kingdom . " Every man , therefore , who ap proves ...
... thought them likely to be tyrants . The ground on which they , in their famous resolution , de clared the throne vacant , was this , " that James had broken the fundamental laws of the kingdom . " Every man , therefore , who ap proves ...
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... thought him- self intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year . Like Fleetwood , he cried in the bitter- ness of his soul that God had hid his face from him . But when he took his seat in the coun- cil , or girt on his sword for ...
... thought him- self intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year . Like Fleetwood , he cried in the bitter- ness of his soul that God had hid his face from him . But when he took his seat in the coun- cil , or girt on his sword for ...
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... thought only of conquering when they should have thought of disenchant - broidery . Not even in the earlier books of the ing . " Oh , He h , ye mistook ! You should have snatched the wand : Without the rod reversed , And backward ...
... thought only of conquering when they should have thought of disenchant - broidery . Not even in the earlier books of the ing . " Oh , He h , ye mistook ! You should have snatched the wand : Without the rod reversed , And backward ...
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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.