Macaulay's Essays on Milton and AddisonLongmans, Green, 1897 - 211 páginas |
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... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant 2 ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with interesting quotations , and have the rare ...
... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant 2 ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with interesting quotations , and have the rare ...
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... manner as to make up a man - a real , living , individual man ? 14. Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsound ...
... manner as to make up a man - a real , living , individual man ? 14. Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsound ...
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... manner indispensable to such works is ad- mirably preserved ; while , at the same time , the richness of his fancy and the elevation of his sentiments give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes ...
... manner indispensable to such works is ad- mirably preserved ; while , at the same time , the richness of his fancy and the elevation of his sentiments give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes ...
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... manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the school - room , the dog - eared Virgil , the holiday , and the prize . A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous ...
... manners of a distant country . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the school - room , the dog - eared Virgil , the holiday , and the prize . A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous ...
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... manner . We cannot , we think , better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan 2 literature . 32. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics of ...
... manner . We cannot , we think , better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan 2 literature . 32. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics of ...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1899 |
Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1893 |
Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1903 |
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Pasajes populares
Página xlvi - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 62 - 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. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 27 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 75 - 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 xlvi - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 57 - We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hardhearted of prelates ; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning...
Página 76 - ... tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that 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.
Página 75 - 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 211 - Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism.
Página 74 - 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. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on His intolerable brightness, and...