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... Death of George II . By HENRY HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . SOUTHEY- Sir Thomas More ; or , Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society . By ROBERT SOUTHEY , Esq . , LL.D. , Poet Laureate . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1829 MR . ROBERT ...
... Death of George II . By HENRY HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . SOUTHEY- Sir Thomas More ; or , Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society . By ROBERT SOUTHEY , Esq . , LL.D. , Poet Laureate . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1829 MR . ROBERT ...
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... hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings 5 MILTON .
... hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings 5 MILTON .
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... Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in indistinct_but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurrying from couch to couch to mock the wretches with his attendance , Death 12 MILTON .
... Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in indistinct_but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair hurrying from couch to couch to mock the wretches with his attendance , Death 12 MILTON .
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... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of ...
... Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike . What says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of ...
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... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
... death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne ...
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Reviews and Essays from "The Edinburgh." Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1899 |
Reviews and Essays from the Edinburgh (1889) Thomas Babington Macaulay Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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Página 204 - It is ridiculous to imagine that a man whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures would have published three or four books every year in order to tell them so : or that a man who could say with truth that he neither sought sympathy nor needed it would have admitted all Europe to hear his farewell to his wife, and his blessings on his child. In the second canto of Childe Harold, he tells us that he is insensible to fame and obloquy : " 111 may such contest now the spirit move...
Página 8 - His poetry acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words than in other words. But they are words of enchantment.
Página 8 - ... incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words than in other words. But they are words of enchantment. No sooner are they pronounced, than the past is present and the distant near. New forms of beauty start at once into existence, and all the burial-places of the memory give up their dead. Change the structure of the sentence: substitute one synonyme for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.
Página 230 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Página 237 - Rehearsal" he said very unjustly," has not wit enough to keep it sweet;" then, after a pause, " it has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.
Página 33 - ... of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, that they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their De Montforts, their Dominies and their Escobars. Yet, when all circumstances are taken into consideration, we do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and a useful body. The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty mainly because it was the cause of religion.
Página 238 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the " Why, sir ?" and the " What then, sir ?" and the " No, sir !" and the " You don't see your way through the question, sir !
Página 11 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th...
Página 295 - It is illustrated by numerous diagrams, exhibiting the various articles of food in their original state, " and there are also coloured plates to show how they ought to look when dished and ready for the t