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... and a box of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They " must have images . The strong tendency of the MILTON . 35.
... and a box of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They " must have images . The strong tendency of the MILTON . 35.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. " must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. " must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to ...
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... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insig . nificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer , that no poet , who should ...
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insig . nificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer , that no poet , who should ...
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... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the ...
... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the ...
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... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and ro- mantic honor , the prejudices of childhood , and the ven- erable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and ro- mantic honor , the prejudices of childhood , and the ven- erable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
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Página 56 - 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 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 18 - ... something of his moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.
Página 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Página 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 157 - Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball ; And now their odours armed against them fly Some preciously by shattered porcelain fall, And some by aromatic splinters die.
Página 51 - 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 defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him...
Página 433 - We follow the travellers through their allegorical progress with interest not inferior to that with which we follow Elizabeth from Siberia to Moscow, or Jeanie Deans from Edinburgh to London. Bunyan is almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete.
Página 179 - It is under the jurisdiction of two hostile powers ; and, like other districts similarly situated, it is ill defined, ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being* equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.