The miscellaneous writings of lord Macaulay [ed. by T.F. Ellis].Longman, Green, Longmann, Roberts & Green, 1865 |
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... cause an op- pressed and divided people ; —may do all that Sylla should have done , and exhibit the magnificent spectacle of a great nation directed by a great mind . " " And where is such a man to be found ? " " Perhaps where you would ...
... cause an op- pressed and divided people ; —may do all that Sylla should have done , and exhibit the magnificent spectacle of a great nation directed by a great mind . " " And where is such a man to be found ? " " Perhaps where you would ...
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... cause , more than from any other , would have left his images to float un- that his description of Heaven is defined in a gorgeous haze of language . so far inferior to the Hell or the Both were right . Milton did not pro- Purgatory ...
... cause , more than from any other , would have left his images to float un- that his description of Heaven is defined in a gorgeous haze of language . so far inferior to the Hell or the Both were right . Milton did not pro- Purgatory ...
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... cause . They This is the more extraordinary , since Dante seems to have been utterly ig- norant of the Greek language ; and his favourite Latin models could only have served to mislead him . Indeed , it is impossible not to remark his ...
... cause . They This is the more extraordinary , since Dante seems to have been utterly ig- norant of the Greek language ; and his favourite Latin models could only have served to mislead him . Indeed , it is impossible not to remark his ...
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... causes to which this great man has owed a celebrity , which I cannot but think disproportioned to his real claims on the ... cause , this practice , the pest of conver- sation , gives to writing a zest which nothing else can impart ...
... causes to which this great man has owed a celebrity , which I cannot but think disproportioned to his real claims on the ... cause , this practice , the pest of conver- sation , gives to writing a zest which nothing else can impart ...
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... causes , much more fre- quently enjoyed by those who corrupt the national taste than by those who improve it . Another cause has co - operated with those which I have mentioned to spread the renown of Petrarch . I mean the interest ...
... causes , much more fre- quently enjoyed by those who corrupt the national taste than by those who improve it . Another cause has co - operated with those which I have mentioned to spread the renown of Petrarch . I mean the interest ...
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Página 86 - ... man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
Página 125 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 304 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the cause! — for the Church! for the laws!
Página 304 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line ! For God ! for the Cause ! for the Church ! for the Laws ! For Charles King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks. Grasp your pikes, close your ranks; For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall.
Página 312 - To my true king I offered free from stain Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain. For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away, And one dear hope, that was more prized than they. For him I languished in a foreign clime, Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ; Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ; Beheld each night my home...
Página 86 - He the best player ! cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you...
Página 304 - And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod ; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day...
Página 175 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 313 - Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees; Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, Each morning started from the dream to weep; Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave The resting-place I asked, an early grave.
Página 262 - ... gross disrespect. The needy scholar was generally to be seen under the gate of Pembroke, a gate now adorned with his effigy, haranguing a circle of lads, over whom, in spite of his tattered gown and dirty linen, his wit and audacity gave him an undisputed ascendency. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college he .; was the ringleader. Much was pardoned, however, to a youth so highly" distinguished by abilities and acquirements. He had early made himself known by , turning Pope's Messiah...