Macaulay's Essays on Milton and AddisonLongmans, Green and Company, 1895 - 211 páginas |
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... nature . His propositions and the testimony to them are carefully stated in clear and graceful English prose ; the air of a quiet speaker to an intelligent assembly is maintained ; though it is but a dull hearer who cannot recognize ...
... nature . His propositions and the testimony to them are carefully stated in clear and graceful English prose ; the air of a quiet speaker to an intelligent assembly is maintained ; though it is but a dull hearer who cannot recognize ...
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... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " " 3 But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother - tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure ...
... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " " 3 But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother - tongue ; and where he is least happy , his failure ...
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... nature of Christ , of Arius , an Alexandrian priest of the fourth century . After a fierce battle in the church , these opinions were condemned as heresy by the General Council of Nicæa , 325 A.D. Milton , like Sir Isaac Newton ...
... nature of Christ , of Arius , an Alexandrian priest of the fourth century . After a fierce battle in the church , these opinions were condemned as heresy by the General Council of Nicæa , 325 A.D. Milton , like Sir Isaac Newton ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay James Greenleaf Croswell. the nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , 1 and the observation of the Sabbath , 2 might , we think , have caused more just surprise . 6. But we will not go into ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay James Greenleaf Croswell. the nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , 1 and the observation of the Sabbath , 2 might , we think , have caused more just surprise . 6. But we will not go into ...
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... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical gen- ius derived no advantage from the civilisation which sur- rounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret ...
... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical gen- ius derived no advantage from the civilisation which sur- rounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret ...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1899 |
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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!