Milton. Machiavelli. Hallam's Constitutional history. Southey's Colloquies on society. Mr. Robert Montgomery's poems. Southey's edition of The pilgrim's progress. Civil disabilities of the Jews. Moore's Life of Lord Byron. Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Burleigh and his times. War of the succession in Spain. Horace WalpoleMethuen, 1903 |
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... effect upon Macaulay's sensible , affectionate nature . In October of 1831 he was in- vited to become a candidate for the city of Leeds . In the following year he was appointed a member of the Board of Control , and a little later was ...
... effect upon Macaulay's sensible , affectionate nature . In October of 1831 he was in- vited to become a candidate for the city of Leeds . In the following year he was appointed a member of the Board of Control , and a little later was ...
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... effect to his own opinions regarding education in India . He was also appointed President of the Commission to inquire into the Jurisprudence and Jurisdiction of the Indian Empire . While holding this position he advised the ...
... effect to his own opinions regarding education in India . He was also appointed President of the Commission to inquire into the Jurisprudence and Jurisdiction of the Indian Empire . While holding this position he advised the ...
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... effect by disposing them lavishly yet art- fully . Where a plain man might say that the Spanish possessions in America extended right across the tropics , Macaulay fills the ear and the imagination by telling us that " the American ...
... effect by disposing them lavishly yet art- fully . Where a plain man might say that the Spanish possessions in America extended right across the tropics , Macaulay fills the ear and the imagination by telling us that " the American ...
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... effect . He sets these in the most natural order and in the strongest light . He never hurries or becomes obscure in the endeavour to be brief , but moves onward swiftly and gracefully , always satisfying and always renewing the ...
... effect . He sets these in the most natural order and in the strongest light . He never hurries or becomes obscure in the endeavour to be brief , but moves onward swiftly and gracefully , always satisfying and always renewing the ...
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... effect of works of genius . I have written several things on historical , political and moral ques- tions of which , on the fullest reconsideration , I am not ashamed , and by which I should be willing to be estimated ; but I have never ...
... effect of works of genius . I have written several things on historical , political and moral ques- tions of which , on the fullest reconsideration , I am not ashamed , and by which I should be willing to be estimated ; but I have never ...
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Página 17 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Página 298 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 46 - 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 39 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 362 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 17 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 282 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 8 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 331 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 48 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.