Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 744 páginas |
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... course all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compo- sitions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By poetry we mean , the art of employing words in such a ...
... course all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compo- sitions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By poetry we mean , the art of employing words in such a ...
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... course left to a government is to form that class into a stand- ing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of a single state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are ...
... course left to a government is to form that class into a stand- ing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of a single state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are ...
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... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much In France , that licensed jester , whose jin- gling 40 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much In France , that licensed jester , whose jin- gling 40 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
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... course , as it seems to us , has To make the past present , to bring the dis - all the disadvantages of a division of labour , tant near , to place us in the society of a great and none of its advantages . We understand man , or on the ...
... course , as it seems to us , has To make the past present , to bring the dis - all the disadvantages of a division of labour , tant near , to place us in the society of a great and none of its advantages . We understand man , or on the ...
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... course of our remarks , we shall think it right to dwell principally on those parts of it from which we dissent . The style is sometimes harsh , and sometimes hend the meaning latent under the emblems of obscure . We have also here and ...
... course of our remarks , we shall think it right to dwell principally on those parts of it from which we dissent . The style is sometimes harsh , and sometimes hend the meaning latent under the emblems of obscure . We have also here and ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 286 - 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 16 - 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 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Página 139 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 113 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do...
Página 38 - 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 13 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage, but let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues ? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles ? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrow-minded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood...
Página 326 - ... him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows — fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies — raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.