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... poems , and to decry the poet . The works , they acknowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
... poems , and to decry the poet . The works , they acknowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
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... poem produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
... poem produced in a civilized age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
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... poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ...
... poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ...
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... information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in MILTON .
... information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in MILTON .
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... poems of Milton the artificial manner indispen- sable to such works is admirably 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 no- bleness ...
... poems of Milton the artificial manner indispen- sable to such works is admirably 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 no- bleness ...
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Página 56 - 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.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Página 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Página 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Página 31 - 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 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 47 - 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...
Página 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Página 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
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| Título | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 16 Ene. 2007 |
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