The miscellaneous writings, speeches and poems of lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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... less on his personal qualities than on the circumstances in which he was placed . Those who have read history with discrimination know the In fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which re- present B 2 JOHN DRYDEN (January 1828)
... less on his personal qualities than on the circumstances in which he was placed . Those who have read history with discrimination know the In fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which re- present B 2 JOHN DRYDEN (January 1828)
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... less certainty than those which regulate the periodical returns of heat and cold , of fertility and barrenness . Those who seem to lead the public taste are , in general , merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously ...
... less certainty than those which regulate the periodical returns of heat and cold , of fertility and barrenness . Those who seem to lead the public taste are , in general , merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously ...
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... less emotion than their descend- ants of Ugolino groping among the wasted corpses of his children , or of Francesca starting at the tremulous kiss and dropping the fatal volume . Far from it . We believe that they admired these things .
... less emotion than their descend- ants of Ugolino groping among the wasted corpses of his children , or of Francesca starting at the tremulous kiss and dropping the fatal volume . Far from it . We believe that they admired these things .
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... less . But they produce better works of imagination . Thus , up to a certain period , the diminution of the poetical powers is far more than compensated by the improve- ment of all the appliances and means of which those powers stand in ...
... less . But they produce better works of imagination . Thus , up to a certain period , the diminution of the poetical powers is far more than compensated by the improve- ment of all the appliances and means of which those powers stand in ...
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... less to mention Sidney and the whole tribe of Eu- phuists ; for Shakspeare himself , the greatest poet that ever lived , falls into the same fault whenever he means to be particularly fine . While he abandons himself to the impulse of ...
... less to mention Sidney and the whole tribe of Eu- phuists ; for Shakspeare himself , the greatest poet that ever lived , falls into the same fault whenever he means to be particularly fine . While he abandons himself to the impulse of ...
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Página 13 - 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 263 - 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 302 - 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 102 - 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 56 - 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 99 - 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 107 - 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 104 - 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 37 - 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 98 - 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.