Macaulay's Essays on Milton and AddisonScott, Foresman, 1899 - 266 páginas |
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... mind , and I should be quite satisfied that a pupil of mine should never look it up , provided he had alertness enough to see that Fracastorius wrote in Latin though he was not a Roman , and discrimination enough to feel that there are ...
... mind , and I should be quite satisfied that a pupil of mine should never look it up , provided he had alertness enough to see that Fracastorius wrote in Latin though he was not a Roman , and discrimination enough to feel that there are ...
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... mind , is quite beyond comprehension . And the more remarkable must this work appear when we consider the manner of its production . Most of the essays were published anonymously in the Edinburgh Review , a few early ones in Knight's ...
... mind , is quite beyond comprehension . And the more remarkable must this work appear when we consider the manner of its production . Most of the essays were published anonymously in the Edinburgh Review , a few early ones in Knight's ...
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... mind that set his work far apart from other work in 7. Organizing the same field — the faculties of Faculty . organization and illustration . He saw things in their right relation and he knew how to make others see them thus . If he was ...
... mind that set his work far apart from other work in 7. Organizing the same field — the faculties of Faculty . organization and illustration . He saw things in their right relation and he knew how to make others see them thus . If he was ...
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... mind was quick to detect resemblances and analogies . He was ready with a comparison for everything , sometimes with half a dozen . For example , Addison's essays , he has occasion to say , were different every day of the week , and yet ...
... mind was quick to detect resemblances and analogies . He was ready with a comparison for everything , sometimes with half a dozen . For example , Addison's essays , he has occasion to say , were different every day of the week , and yet ...
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... mind doing instantly and involuntarily what other minds do with infinite pains , bringing together all things that have a likeness or a common bearing . Both of these faculties , for organization and for illustration , are to be ...
... mind doing instantly and involuntarily what other minds do with infinite pains , bringing together all things that have a likeness or a common bearing . Both of these faculties , for organization and for illustration , are to be ...
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Página 91 - 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 79 - 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 91 - 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 91 - 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 58 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, "the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Página 92 - 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 78 - 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 90 - 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.
Página 55 - He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority.
Página 77 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...