Macaulay's Essays on Milton and AddisonLongmans, Green and Company, 1895 - 211 páginas |
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... Charles F. Richardson , Ph.D. , Winkley Professor of the English Lan- guage and Literature in Dartmouth College . DE QUINCEY'S FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE ( REVOLT OF THE TARTARS ) . Edited by Charles Sears Baldwin , Ph.D. , Assistant ...
... Charles F. Richardson , Ph.D. , Winkley Professor of the English Lan- guage and Literature in Dartmouth College . DE QUINCEY'S FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE ( REVOLT OF THE TARTARS ) . Edited by Charles Sears Baldwin , Ph.D. , Assistant ...
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... Charles II . that he was " a cruel idol propitiated by the best blood of England's children . " Any careful reader of the essay will find almost anywhere other similar exaggerations of phrase . It is not true , for instance , that ...
... Charles II . that he was " a cruel idol propitiated by the best blood of England's children . " Any careful reader of the essay will find almost anywhere other similar exaggerations of phrase . It is not true , for instance , that ...
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... Charles and of Cromwell . In " Para- dise Lost " one sees at last these influences erecting to- gether an harmonious whole of unique beauty . That is a great song of a true - born singer relating in the imagery of an immortal epic the ...
... Charles and of Cromwell . In " Para- dise Lost " one sees at last these influences erecting to- gether an harmonious whole of unique beauty . That is a great song of a true - born singer relating in the imagery of an immortal epic the ...
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... Charles I. from the throne , Macaulay has but to show that Charles I. did the same things in 1649 that James II . did in 1688. We may here consider for a moment the well - known story of the Great Rebellion in order to follow ...
... Charles I. from the throne , Macaulay has but to show that Charles I. did the same things in 1649 that James II . did in 1688. We may here consider for a moment the well - known story of the Great Rebellion in order to follow ...
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... Charles's name with the reproach of tyranny and faithlessness . He was , though in other relations in life a high - minded gentleman , in the exercise of his office as monarch , as his people soon found , perfidious on princi- ple ...
... Charles's name with the reproach of tyranny and faithlessness . He was , though in other relations in life a high - minded gentleman , in the exercise of his office as monarch , as his people soon found , perfidious on princi- ple ...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1899 |
Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1893 |
Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1903 |
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Página 108 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página xlvi - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 180 - Booth to his box, and presented him, before the whole theatre, with a purse of fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual Dictator.
Página 140 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 53 - That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws; and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Página 70 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the Golden Age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.
Página xlvi - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 75 - 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.
Página 89 - 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 57 - We charge him with having broken his coronation oath; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow! We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and the defense is that he took his little son on his knee, and kissed him!