Essays on Milton and AddisonBenj. H. Sanborn & Company, 1902 - 315 páginas |
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... , therefore , invited him to write for the Review , and in August , 1825 , published that first brilliant Essay on Milton which heads the long list of Macaulay's celebrated essays . His reputation was im- mediately INTRODUCTION . xi.
... , therefore , invited him to write for the Review , and in August , 1825 , published that first brilliant Essay on Milton which heads the long list of Macaulay's celebrated essays . His reputation was im- mediately INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... heads Celestial armory , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " 10 We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without 15 catching a glimpse of the ...
... heads Celestial armory , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " 10 We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without 15 catching a glimpse of the ...
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... head goes round twenty different bodies , 15 so that the same face looks out upon us , suc- cessively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants ...
... head goes round twenty different bodies , 15 so that the same face looks out upon us , suc- cessively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants ...
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... head and heart , a lyric poet . In his time the Greeks had far more intercourse 10 with the East than in the days of Homer ; and they had not yet acquired that immense superiority in war , in science , and in the arts , which , in the ...
... head and heart , a lyric poet . In his time the Greeks had far more intercourse 10 with the East than in the days of Homer ; and they had not yet acquired that immense superiority in war , in science , and in the arts , which , in the ...
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... heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The government had prohibited free discussion ; it had 10 done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The retribution was just ...
... heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The government had prohibited free discussion ; it had 10 done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The retribution was just ...
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Página 79 - Puritan was made up of two different men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 289 - 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...
Página 81 - Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach ; and we know that, in spite 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...
Página 93 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.
Página 80 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures...
Página 63 - 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. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 78 - ... themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should...
Página 88 - ... be emancipated from the dominion of prejudice as well as from that of Charles. He knew that those who, with the best intentions, overlooked these schemes of reform, and contented themselves with pulling down the King and imprisoning the...
Página 77 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from Him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Página 78 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.