Macaulay's Essay on MiltonMacmillan, 1898 - 128 páginas |
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... perhaps the most note- worthy works of their class in the English language , and the latter practically exhausts the historical ma- terials of the period . Yet his most characteristic work is found in his literary and critical essays ...
... perhaps the most note- worthy works of their class in the English language , and the latter practically exhausts the historical ma- terials of the period . Yet his most characteristic work is found in his literary and critical essays ...
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... Perhaps this omission may be explained by the fol- lowing passage from a letter to Mr. Napier . His estimate of the personal character of Scott is widely at variance with the facts as known to us . " Then , again , I have not , from the ...
... Perhaps this omission may be explained by the fol- lowing passage from a letter to Mr. Napier . His estimate of the personal character of Scott is widely at variance with the facts as known to us . " Then , again , I have not , from the ...
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... Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy 10 poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all ...
... Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy 10 poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all ...
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... perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and ...
... perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hindrance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and ...
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... perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ° was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by ...
... perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the ex- cellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ° was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by ...
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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.