Reviews, Essays, and PoemsWard, Lock, 1890 - 1058 páginas |
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... writers of the Middle Ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill- qualified to ... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves ...
... writers of the Middle Ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill- qualified to ... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. writers . The book of Job , indeed , in con- duct and diction , bears a ... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. writers . The book of Job , indeed , in con- duct and diction , bears a ... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in ...
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... writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of com- municating his ... writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are ...
... writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of com- municating his ... writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are ...
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... writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ... writers who have espoused the same cause . Old- mixon for instance , and Catherine Ma- caulay , have , to say the ...
... writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ... writers who have espoused the same cause . Old- mixon for instance , and Catherine Ma- caulay , have , to say the ...
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... writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some concealed meaning , more ... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in ...
... writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some concealed meaning , more ... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in ...
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Página 432 - We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 26 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures...
Página 93 - 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 28 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime, works with which his genius has enriched our literature, 'but the zeal with which . he...
Página 22 - 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 learnt to swim! If men are to. wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 26 - Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for him that the sun had been darkened, that the rocks had...
Página 213 - suggested that luxury corrupts a people, and destroys the spirit of liberty. JOHNSON : Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?" SIR ADAM: " But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so...
Página 409 - My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson very finely, " was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself; in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Página 381 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but con26 Essays sisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 420 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human...