The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord MacaulayLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts & Green, 1865 - 395 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página v
... opinions . The articles published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine were composed during the author's residence at college , as B.A. It may be remarked that the first two of these exhibit the earnestness with which he already endeavoured ...
... opinions . The articles published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine were composed during the author's residence at college , as B.A. It may be remarked that the first two of these exhibit the earnestness with which he already endeavoured ...
Página ix
... opinions on the ground that they were in express antagonism to his own . The grave has now closed upon the assailant as well as the assailed . On the other hand , it cannot but be desirable that opinions which the author retained to the ...
... opinions on the ground that they were in express antagonism to his own . The grave has now closed upon the assailant as well as the assailed . On the other hand , it cannot but be desirable that opinions which the author retained to the ...
Página 1
... opinions at his table re- peatedly . " B " I never listen to any opinions upon such subjects CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNIGHT'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE (June 1823.
... opinions at his table re- peatedly . " B " I never listen to any opinions upon such subjects CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNIGHT'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE (June 1823.
Página 9
... opinions on those subjects which most agitate and inflame the minds of men . The sceptic and the zealot , the revolu- tionist and the placeman , meet on common ground in a gallery of paint- ings or a laboratory of science . They can ...
... opinions on those subjects which most agitate and inflame the minds of men . The sceptic and the zealot , the revolu- tionist and the placeman , meet on common ground in a gallery of paint- ings or a laboratory of science . They can ...
Página 19
... opinion- HIPPOMACHUS . Pythagoras stole that and all his other opinions from Asia and Egypt . The transmigration of the soul and the * Homer's Odyssey , xii . 63 . † See the close of Plato's Gorgias . The scene which follows is founded ...
... opinion- HIPPOMACHUS . Pythagoras stole that and all his other opinions from Asia and Egypt . The transmigration of the soul and the * Homer's Odyssey , xii . 63 . † See the close of Plato's Gorgias . The scene which follows is founded ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1865 |
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay (1865) Thomas Babington Macaulay Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration ALCIBIADES ancient appear argument aristocracy Barère Barère's Bentham Cæsar CALLICLES CALLIDEMUS character common cracy death Demosthenes Edinburgh Review effect eloquence eminent England English Euripides evil exist fact favour fecundity feelings France French friends genius Girondists greatest happiness greatest happiness principle Greek Herodotus Hippolyte Carnot HIPPOMACHUS honour House imagination interest Jacobin Johnson king language less liberty literature lived Lord manner marriages means ment Mill Mill's mind Mitford monarchy moral nation ness never noble opinion Parliament party passed passion person Petrarch Pitt pleasure poem poet poetry political population principle produced prove reason Revolution Robespierre Sadler scarcely seems society sophisms SPEUSIPPUS spirit square mile strong superfecundity talents taste tells theory thing thou thought Thucydides tion truth Utilitarian Westminster Westminster Reviewer Whig whole words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 365 - And he — he turns, he flies: — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war...
Página 129 - ... historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality; for one half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel.
Página 23 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 199 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 364 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line : For God ! for the Cause ! for the Church ! for the Laws ! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine!
Página 310 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Página 89 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr. Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage?
Página 379 - Scargill's whispering trees, and pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees; beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, each morning started from the dream to weep ; till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave the resting-place I asked, an early grave.
Página 106 - ... all this is very easy. But to be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which We should be inclined to designate as faultless, or as disfigured only by blemishes which pass unnoticed in the general blaze of excellence. There are Speeches, some speeches of Demosthenes particularly, in which it would be impossible to alter a word, without altering it for the worse.
Página 299 - Baldearg O'Donnell and galloping Hogan, and about the exploits of Peterborough and Stanhope, the surprise of Monjuich, and the glorious disaster of Brihuega. This man must have been of the Protestant religion ; but he was of the aboriginal race, and not only spoke the Irish language, but could pour forth unpremeditated Irish verses.