Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 - 702 páginas |
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... court of Charles the Second was celebrated . But , if we must make our choice , we shall , like Bassanio in the play , turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden ...
... court of Charles the Second was celebrated . But , if we must make our choice , we shall , like Bassanio in the play , turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden ...
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... court for the happiness of a people . For- tunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred ...
... court for the happiness of a people . For- tunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred ...
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... Court of Rome , and thrice at that of France . In these missions , and in several others of inferior importance , he acquitted himself with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive collections extant ...
... Court of Rome , and thrice at that of France . In these missions , and in several others of inferior importance , he acquitted himself with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive collections extant ...
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... court . The establishments of the nobles are more magnificent . The esquires are richer ; the merchants are richer ; the shopkeepers are richer . The serving - man , the artisan , and the husbandman have a more copious and palatable ...
... court . The establishments of the nobles are more magnificent . The esquires are richer ; the merchants are richer ; the shopkeepers are richer . The serving - man , the artisan , and the husbandman have a more copious and palatable ...
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... court individuals , and have begun to court the public . They formerly used flattery . They now use puffing . Whether the old or the new vice be the worse , whether those who formerly lavished insincere praise on others , or those who ...
... court individuals , and have begun to court the public . They formerly used flattery . They now use puffing . Whether the old or the new vice be the worse , whether those who formerly lavished insincere praise on others , or those who ...
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Literary Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1937 |
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Página 14 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd 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 380 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 6 - By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.
Página 34 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 43 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Página 380 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 233 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! ' He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas.
Página 18 - A philosopher might admire so noble a conception; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions,...
Página 380 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 187 - ... wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy. To our children he will be merely a writer; and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers, without regard to his rank or to his private history. That his poetry will undergo a severe sifting ; that much of what has been admired by his contemporaries will be rejected...