The miscellaneous writings, speeches and poems of lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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... character on their age . The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd supposes . But the same feelings which in ancient Rome pro- duced the apotheosis of a popular emperor , and in modern ...
... character on their age . The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd supposes . But the same feelings which in ancient Rome pro- duced the apotheosis of a popular emperor , and in modern ...
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... character of Hotspur are obvious to the most superficial reader . We at once perceive that his courage is splendid , his thirst of glory intense , his animal spirits high , his temper careless , arbitrary , and petulant ; that he ...
... character of Hotspur are obvious to the most superficial reader . We at once perceive that his courage is splendid , his thirst of glory intense , his animal spirits high , his temper careless , arbitrary , and petulant ; that he ...
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... characters of them , we should scarcely be able to point out any strong distinction ; yet we ap- proach them with feelings altogether dissimilar . We cannot conceive of them as using the expressions or the gestures of each other . Let ...
... characters of them , we should scarcely be able to point out any strong distinction ; yet we ap- proach them with feelings altogether dissimilar . We cannot conceive of them as using the expressions or the gestures of each other . Let ...
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... characters are allegories ; not good men and bad men , but cardinal virtues and deadly sins . We seem to have fallen among the acquaintances of our old friend Christian : sometimes we meet Mistrust and Timorous ; sometimes Mr. Hate ...
... characters are allegories ; not good men and bad men , but cardinal virtues and deadly sins . We seem to have fallen among the acquaintances of our old friend Christian : sometimes we meet Mistrust and Timorous ; sometimes Mr. Hate ...
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... character exquisitely ridicu- lous , without impairing its worth , its grace , or its dignity . In Don Quixote are several dissertations . on the principles of poetic and dramatic writing . No passages in the whole work exhibit stronger ...
... character exquisitely ridicu- lous , without impairing its worth , its grace , or its dignity . In Don Quixote are several dissertations . on the principles of poetic and dramatic writing . No passages in the whole work exhibit stronger ...
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Página 15 - I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 265 - 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 304 - Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up ; 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom. 8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD.
Página 104 - More than one illustrious stranger has landed on our island amidst the shouts of a mob, has dined with the King, has hunted with the master of the stag-hounds, has seen the Guards reviewed, and a Knight of the Garter installed, has cantered along Regent Street, has visited St. Paul's, and noted down its dimensions; and has then departed, thinking that he has seen England.
Página 58 - It is under the jurisdiction of two hostile powers ; and, like other districts similarly situated, it is ill defined, ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being* equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.
Página 101 - They have imposed on themselves a code of conventional decencies as absurd as that which has been the bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial for the majesty of history.
Página 109 - The instruction derived from history thus written would be of a vivid and practical character. It would be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner. As the history of states is generally written, the greatest and most momentous revolutions seem to come upon them like supernatural inflictions, without warning or cause. But the fact is, that such revolutions...
Página 106 - But a truly great 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 39 - twill not be your best advice: 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late: Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?
Página 100 - While our historians are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect the art of narration, the art of interesting the affections and presenting pictures to the imagination.