Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable... Essay on Milton - Página 7por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 66 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...characlers inlo their elements, would he have been able to combine (hose elements in such a manner as lo make up a man, — a real, living, individual man?...Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poelry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...able reasoning on the subject, as is to be found in the ' Fable of the Bees.' But could Mandeville have created an lago ? Well as he knew how to resolve...elements in such a manner as to make up a man, — a realj living, individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a... | |
| William Jones - 1841 - 186 páginas
...occasion to discuss the poetry of the immortal bard. In one part of the article, tlie Reviewer says : " Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, M anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course... | |
| William Jones - 1841 - 194 páginas
...occasion to discuss the poetry of the immortal bard. In one part of the article, the Reviewer says: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, ii WELSH AS A NATION. anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...able reasoning on the subject, as is to be found in the " Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago? Well as he knew how to resolve...combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man—a real, living, individual man? Perhaps no man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...able reasoning on the subject as is to be | found in the " Fable ot' the Bees." But could Mandeville nature of that species of composition; and he has,...therefore, succeeded, wherever success was not impossible. man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any tiling which... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...the subject as is to be found in the "Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago 1 nd meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...were constantly fixed. They recognised no title to man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...subject as is to be found in the " Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago Í ubdued by them. Their dominions stretched across the...captains reigned at Poonah, at Saulior, in Guzerat, in Be ajnan — a real, living, individual man Î Perhaps no man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 páginas
...much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees. But could Mandeville have created an lago ? Well as he knew how to resolve...poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry wo mean not all writing... | |
| 1854 - 382 páginas
..."Hastings." We cannot consider Macaulay a great poet. Let us turn to his own definition of a poet : — " Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundiiess of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundiiess. By... | |
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