Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by A. MackieLongmans, Green & Company, 1884 - 179 páginas |
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... reason for regarding the book as altogether unsuitable for information purposes . Instruction in facts should be direct and em- phatic , and should not proceed by mere implica- tion . And , if we insist on making such a treatise as this ...
... reason for regarding the book as altogether unsuitable for information purposes . Instruction in facts should be direct and em- phatic , and should not proceed by mere implica- tion . And , if we insist on making such a treatise as this ...
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... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining 25 them . Even when ...
... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining 25 them . Even when ...
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... reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image of 5 the thing ; and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not ...
... reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image of 5 the thing ; and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not ...
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... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were * Anthology , collection or selection of flowers of literature . + Collects , short comprehensive ...
... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were * Anthology , collection or selection of flowers of literature . + Collects , short comprehensive ...
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... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revo- lution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebel- 25 lion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture ...
... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revo- lution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebel- 25 lion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture ...
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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...