The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to Knight's quarterly magazine. Contributions to the Edinburgh reviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... persons of past times as in actual existence . Of the Dialogue be- tween Milton and Cowley he spoke , many years after its publication , as that one of his works which he remembered with most satisfaction . The article on Mitford's ...
... persons of past times as in actual existence . Of the Dialogue be- tween Milton and Cowley he spoke , many years after its publication , as that one of his works which he remembered with most satisfaction . The article on Mitford's ...
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... persons who , having read little or nothing , are de- lighted to be rescued from the sense of their own inferiority by some teacher who assures them that the studies which they have neglected are of no value , puts five or six phrases ...
... persons who , having read little or nothing , are de- lighted to be rescued from the sense of their own inferiority by some teacher who assures them that the studies which they have neglected are of no value , puts five or six phrases ...
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... person . The high and imperial brow , the keen aqui- line features , the compressed mouth , the penetrating eye , indicated the highest degree of ability and decision . He seemed absorbed in intense meditation . With eyes fixed on the ...
... person . The high and imperial brow , the keen aqui- line features , the compressed mouth , the penetrating eye , indicated the highest degree of ability and decision . He seemed absorbed in intense meditation . With eyes fixed on the ...
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... person of quality . " I am not sure that we should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . But these circumstances , while they foster genius , are unfavourable to the science of criticism . Men judge by comparison ...
... person of quality . " I am not sure that we should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . But these circumstances , while they foster genius , are unfavourable to the science of criticism . Men judge by comparison ...
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... person can admire more than I do the great master- pieces of wit and humour which Italy has produced . Still I cannot but discern and lament a great deficiency , which is common to them all . I find in them abundance of ingenuity , of ...
... person can admire more than I do the great master- pieces of wit and humour which Italy has produced . Still I cannot but discern and lament a great deficiency , which is common to them all . I find in them abundance of ingenuity , of ...
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