Macaulay's Essay on MiltonMacmillan, 1898 - 128 páginas |
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... never allowed school duties to encroach upon his love of home and friends , or to reconcile him to his " exile . " At the beginning of his second half - year at school he writes to his mother : 66 My spirits are far more depressed by ...
... never allowed school duties to encroach upon his love of home and friends , or to reconcile him to his " exile . " At the beginning of his second half - year at school he writes to his mother : 66 My spirits are far more depressed by ...
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... never been exceeded within these walls for the development of statesman - like policy and practical good sense . It exhibited all that is noble in oratory ; all that is sublime , I had almost said , in poetry ; all that is truly great ...
... never been exceeded within these walls for the development of statesman - like policy and practical good sense . It exhibited all that is noble in oratory ; all that is sublime , I had almost said , in poetry ; all that is truly great ...
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... never wrote carelessly or hastily . He gives an insight into his literary methods in a letter written to the editor of the Edinburgh Review from Calcutta , November 26 , 1836 , from which the following passage is taken : 1 " At last I ...
... never wrote carelessly or hastily . He gives an insight into his literary methods in a letter written to the editor of the Edinburgh Review from Calcutta , November 26 , 1836 , from which the following passage is taken : 1 " At last I ...
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... never intended to put his essays into permanent form , and several times refused the re- quest of his publishers to collect and edit them . But finally the popular demand became so great that American publishers issued unauthorized ...
... never intended to put his essays into permanent form , and several times refused the re- quest of his publishers to collect and edit them . But finally the popular demand became so great that American publishers issued unauthorized ...
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... never wrote a book . Few writers since the time of Aristotle have covered so broad a field , and fewer still have proved themselves so thoroughly at home in every department of human thought and investigation , yet he never sustained ...
... never wrote a book . Few writers since the time of Aristotle have covered so broad a field , and fewer still have proved themselves so thoroughly at home in every department of human thought and investigation , yet he never sustained ...
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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 hand.
Página 120 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Página 74 - 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 61 - 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 xxxiii - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 62 - 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.
Página 121 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; restored to the Good of both Sexes, from the Bondage of Canon Law, and other Mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compared.
Página 76 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, 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 105 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
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 tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.