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... Cato was performed . Cato , it seems , was in love with a 24 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON .
... Cato was performed . Cato , it seems , was in love with a 24 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON .
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... Cato on the English stage . It is well known that about this time he began his tragedy , and that he finished the first four acts before he returned to England . On his way from Venice to Rome , he was drawn some 15 miles out of the ...
... Cato on the English stage . It is well known that about this time he began his tragedy , and that he finished the first four acts before he returned to England . On his way from Venice to Rome , he was drawn some 15 miles out of the ...
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... Cato ' on the stage . The first four acts of this drama had been lying in his desk since his return from Italy . His modest and sensi- 25 tive nature shrank from the risk of a public and shame- ful failure ; and though all who saw the ...
... Cato ' on the stage . The first four acts of this drama had been lying in his desk since his return from Italy . His modest and sensi- 25 tive nature shrank from the risk of a public and shame- ful failure ; and though all who saw the ...
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... Cato , struggling to the last for the liberties of Rome , and the band of patriots who still stood firm round Halifax and Wharton . 5 Addison gave the play to the managers of Drury Lane Theater , without stipulating for any advantage to ...
... Cato , struggling to the last for the liberties of Rome , and the band of patriots who still stood firm round Halifax and Wharton . 5 Addison gave the play to the managers of Drury Lane Theater , without stipulating for any advantage to ...
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... Cato . Wharton , too , who had the incredible effrontery to applaud the lines about flying from prosperous vice and from the power of impious men to a private station , did not escape the sarcasms of those who justly thought that he ...
... Cato . Wharton , too , who had the incredible effrontery to applaud the lines about flying from prosperous vice and from the power of impious men to a private station , did not escape the sarcasms of those who justly thought that he ...
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Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1898 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Addi Addison admire Æneid Æschylus appeared army became Boileau called Cato Catullus character Charles Church classical Comus critics Dante death distinguished Dryden England English essay Euripides favor feelings France French friends genius Godolphin Greek Halifax heroic couplets honor House of Bourbon House of Commons House of Hanover Iliad Ireland James Johnson King Lancelot Addison learning letter liberty literary literature London Long Parliament Lord Macaulay Macaulay's Marlborough means Milton mind minister Montagu nature never noble opinion Oxford Paradise Paradise Lost Parliament party passages person poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's popular praise published Queen reader remarkable Revolution says scholar seems Somers Spectator spirit Steele Steele's strange style Sunderland Swift talents taste Tatler thought throne Tickell tion Tories translation Vincent Bourne virtue Voltaire Whig Whig party William words write written
Pasajes populares
Página 43 - 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 42 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly-acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom.
Página 17 - 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 50 - The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff posture, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed fair game for the laughers.
Página 34 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Página 60 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.
Página 53 - Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested, by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 52 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 52 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! 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.
Página 38 - 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...