Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by A. MackieLongmans, Green & Company, 1884 - 179 páginas |
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... public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the 20 great conflict between ...
... public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the 20 great conflict between ...
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... public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen 15 still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English ...
... public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen 15 still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English ...
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... public conduct of Milton must be approved or condemned , according as the resistance of the people to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the ...
... public conduct of Milton must be approved or condemned , according as the resistance of the people to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the ...
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... conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . * The Lords and Commons 5 present him with a bill in ... public business , particularly in the 13th century . been forfeited over and over again ? Were they to 55.
... conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . * The Lords and Commons 5 present him with a bill in ... public business , particularly in the 13th century . been forfeited over and over again ? Were they to 55.
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... conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men who , in spite of much that was ridiculous and hateful in the conduct of their associates , stood firmly by the 15 cause of public liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been ...
... conduct of Milton and the other wise and good men who , in spite of much that was ridiculous and hateful in the conduct of their associates , stood firmly by the 15 cause of public liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been ...
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abruptness admire Æneid Æschylus Agonistes antithesis army Balance called Catherine Macaulay character characteristic Charles chief circumstances classical clear climactic arrangement Comus concrete contrast criticism Cromwell Dante digression Divine Comedy effect emphasis England English essay Euripides example of Macaulay's Explicit Reference exposition Faithful Shepherdess feelings figure freedom Greek hero illustration images intellectual James James II king language Latin Leslie Stephen liberty literary literature lofty Long Parliament lyrical Macau Macaulay Mark means metaphor Milton Milton's conduct mind nature never noble opening sentence opinions Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paragraph Parallel Construction Parliament peculiar perfect period Petition of Right Petrarch philosopher phrase of reference poems poet poetical political principle profusion prominence prose public conduct Puritans reader reason remarks Revolution sake Samson Samson Agonistes semicolon simile spirit style theme thing thought tion topic tyrant words writers wrote
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Página 63 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 84 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página xxii - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Página 75 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 76 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 75 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier 10 hand.
Página 75 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 62 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.
Página 77 - Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them.
Página 75 - If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away...