Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 110 páginas |
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... tion and notes , by EDWARD EVERETT HALE , Jr. , Ph.D. , Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College . With Portrait of Milton . POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD . BOOKS I. , VI . , XXII . , AND XXIV . Edited , with introduction and notes , by ...
... tion and notes , by EDWARD EVERETT HALE , Jr. , Ph.D. , Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College . With Portrait of Milton . POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD . BOOKS I. , VI . , XXII . , AND XXIV . Edited , with introduction and notes , by ...
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... TION , together with other Addresses relating to the Revolution . Edited by Fred Newton Scott , Ph.D. , Junior Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan . COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER . Edited by Herbert Bates ...
... TION , together with other Addresses relating to the Revolution . Edited by Fred Newton Scott , Ph.D. , Junior Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan . COLERIDGE'S THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER . Edited by Herbert Bates ...
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... tion of the slave trade . Macaulay's mother , to whom he perhaps owed more than to his father , was , according to Mr. Morrison , " a woman of warm - hearted and affectionate temper , yet clear- headed and firm withal , and with a good ...
... tion of the slave trade . Macaulay's mother , to whom he perhaps owed more than to his father , was , according to Mr. Morrison , " a woman of warm - hearted and affectionate temper , yet clear- headed and firm withal , and with a good ...
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... tion was the celebrated " Essay on Milton . ” 1 As criti- cism , this Essay has little value , for Macaulay was never a subtle or profound critic , capable of analyzing and ex- hibiting the beauties of literary masterpieces ; but as a ...
... tion was the celebrated " Essay on Milton . ” 1 As criti- cism , this Essay has little value , for Macaulay was never a subtle or profound critic , capable of analyzing and ex- hibiting the beauties of literary masterpieces ; but as a ...
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... tion . But he never spoke in the House of Lords . For a number of years before his death his health was frail ; he died at his residence , Holly Lodge , Kensington , December 28 , 1859 , of heart disease . Two months before , he wrote ...
... tion . But he never spoke in the House of Lords . For a number of years before his death his health was frail ; he died at his residence , Holly Lodge , Kensington , December 28 , 1859 , of heart disease . Two months before , he wrote ...
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Página 34 - is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat : this shows he has good principles.
Página 29 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 34 - 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.
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Página 36 - But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Página 35 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
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Página 29 - Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...