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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 infancy of civilization ...
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 infancy of civilization ...
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They may be bet- ter able to analyze human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ( portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury .
They may be bet- ter able to analyze human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ( portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury .
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If Shak- speare had written a book on the motives of human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It is extremely improbable that it would have con- tained half so much able reasoning on the subject as ...
If Shak- speare had written a book on the motives of human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It is extremely improbable that it would have con- tained half so much able reasoning on the subject as ...
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We hasten on to that extra- ordinary production , which the general suffrage of critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the Divine ...
We hasten on to that extra- ordinary production , which the general suffrage of critics has placed in the highest class of human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost , is the Divine ...
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In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the sun the worship which , speculatively , they considered due only to 26 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the sun the worship which , speculatively , they considered due only to 26 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
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| Título | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Thomas Carlyle Modern British essayists |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | D. Appleton, 1860 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 24 Mayo 2017 |
| Largo | 568 páginas |
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