The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volumen6 |
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... non- sense . Nor was it only in his familiar correspondence that he wrote in this flighty and inconsistent manner , but in long and elaborate books , in books repeatedly transcribed and in- 10 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
... non- sense . Nor was it only in his familiar correspondence that he wrote in this flighty and inconsistent manner , but in long and elaborate books , in books repeatedly transcribed and in- 10 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
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... manner . Every body who reads his works with attention will find that they swarm with loose and foolish observations like those which we have cited ; observations which might pass in conversation or in a hasty letter , but which are ...
... manner . Every body who reads his works with attention will find that they swarm with loose and foolish observations like those which we have cited ; observations which might pass in conversation or in a hasty letter , but which are ...
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... manner of his writings . If we were to adopt the classification , not a very accurate classification , which Akenside has given of the pleasures of the imagination , we should say , that with the Sublime and the Beautiful Walpole had ...
... manner of his writings . If we were to adopt the classification , not a very accurate classification , which Akenside has given of the pleasures of the imagination , we should say , that with the Sublime and the Beautiful Walpole had ...
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... manner has become perfectly easy to him . His affectation is so habitual and so universal that it can hardly be called affectation . The affectation is the essence of the man . It pervades all his thoughts and all his expressions . If ...
... manner has become perfectly easy to him . His affectation is so habitual and so universal that it can hardly be called affectation . The affectation is the essence of the man . It pervades all his thoughts and all his expressions . If ...
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... manner as in his Memoirs . A writer of let- ters must in general be civil and friendly to his correspondent at least , if to no other person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the ...
... manner as in his Memoirs . A writer of let- ters must in general be civil and friendly to his correspondent at least , if to no other person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the ...
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Página 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 242 - Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity...
Página 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 630 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,...
Página 629 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Página 316 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Página 630 - ... too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs.
Página 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Página 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...