Macaulay's Essays on Addison and MiltonGinn, 1898 - 212 páginas |
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... strange that such a man should have been one of the most forcible writers that ever held a pen . Every sentence is crisp , clear , and strong . The boy or girl who studies Macaulay's style is taking a composition tonic . It is the best ...
... strange that such a man should have been one of the most forcible writers that ever held a pen . Every sentence is crisp , clear , and strong . The boy or girl who studies Macaulay's style is taking a composition tonic . It is the best ...
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... strange that Addison should , in the first lines of his travels , have misdated his departure from Marseilles by a whole year , and still more strange that this slip of the pen , which throws the whole narrative into inextricable ...
... strange that Addison should , in the first lines of his travels , have misdated his departure from Marseilles by a whole year , and still more strange that this slip of the pen , which throws the whole narrative into inextricable ...
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... strange to say , their existence was a secret even to artists and antiquaries . Though situated within a few hours ' journey of a great capital , where Salvator had not long before painted , and where 25 Vico was then lecturing , those ...
... strange to say , their existence was a secret even to artists and antiquaries . Though situated within a few hours ' journey of a great capital , where Salvator had not long before painted , and where 25 Vico was then lecturing , those ...
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... strange that a great writer should fail as a speaker . But many , 20 probably , will think it strange that Addison's failure as a speaker should have had no unfavorable effect on his suc- cess as a politician . In our time , a man of ...
... strange that a great writer should fail as a speaker . But many , 20 probably , will think it strange that Addison's failure as a speaker should have had no unfavorable effect on his suc- cess as a politician . In our time , a man of ...
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... strange that Addison should have climbed higher in the State than any other 20 Englishman has ever , by means merely of literary talents , been able to climb . Swift would , in all probability , have climbed as high if he had not been ...
... strange that Addison should have climbed higher in the State than any other 20 Englishman has ever , by means merely of literary talents , been able to climb . Swift would , in all probability , have climbed as high if he had not been ...
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Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1898 |
Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1898 |
Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1898 |
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...