The miscellaneous writings, speeches and poems of lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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... constitution of his mind ? In poetry , as in painting and sculpture , it is necessary that the imi- tator should be well acquainted with that which he undertakes to imitate , and expert in the mechanical part of his art . Genius will ...
... constitution of his mind ? In poetry , as in painting and sculpture , it is necessary that the imi- tator should be well acquainted with that which he undertakes to imitate , and expert in the mechanical part of his art . Genius will ...
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... constitution , his informa- tion of vast superficies though of small volume , his wit scarcely inferior to that of the most distinguished followers of Donne , his eloquence , grave , deliberate , and commanding , could not save him from ...
... constitution , his informa- tion of vast superficies though of small volume , his wit scarcely inferior to that of the most distinguished followers of Donne , his eloquence , grave , deliberate , and commanding , could not save him from ...
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... constitution rather than from rational conviction . He was as superstitious as Herodotus , but in a way far more offensive . The very peculiari- ties which charm us in an infant , the toothless mumbling , the stammering , the tottering ...
... constitution rather than from rational conviction . He was as superstitious as Herodotus , but in a way far more offensive . The very peculiari- ties which charm us in an infant , the toothless mumbling , the stammering , the tottering ...
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... constitution was founded or preserved , from De Montfort down to Fox , may well stand a comparison with the Fasti of Rome . The dying thanksgiving of Sydney is as noble as the libation which Thrasea poured to Liberating Jove : and we ...
... constitution was founded or preserved , from De Montfort down to Fox , may well stand a comparison with the Fasti of Rome . The dying thanksgiving of Sydney is as noble as the libation which Thrasea poured to Liberating Jove : and we ...
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... constitution were laid by men who knew nothing of the Greeks but that they denied the orthodox pro- cession and cheated the Crusaders ; and nothing of Rome , but that the Pope lived there . Those who followed , contented themselves with ...
... constitution were laid by men who knew nothing of the Greeks but that they denied the orthodox pro- cession and cheated the Crusaders ; and nothing of Rome , but that the Pope lived there . Those who followed , contented themselves with ...
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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.