Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essaysHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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... attempt has been made to remodel any of the pieces which are contained in these volumes . Even the criticisin on Milton , which was written when the author was fresh from college , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his ...
... attempt has been made to remodel any of the pieces which are contained in these volumes . Even the criticisin on Milton , which was written when the author was fresh from college , and which contains scarcely a paragraph such as his ...
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... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That ...
... attempt to polish and brighten his composition into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That ...
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... beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt anything like a complete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has MILTON . 21.
... beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt anything like a complete examination of the poetry of Milton . The public has MILTON . 21.
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... attempt to translate into his own diction some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known ...
... attempt to translate into his own diction some parts of the Paradise Lost , is a remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations , we may remark that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gen- erally known ...
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... attempted to carry the reform farther . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to reconcile things in their own nat- ure inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed ...
... attempted to carry the reform farther . But it was a task far beyond his powers , perhaps beyond any powers . Instead ... attempt to reconcile things in their own nat- ure inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed ...
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Página 40 - 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 548 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 135 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Página 36 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and wofnl stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Página 196 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 44 - ... him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them : and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning. It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress, his handsome face and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most of his popularity with the present generation.
Página 63 - ... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a • perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to...
Página 56 - He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke, screaming, from dreams of everlasting fire.
Página 455 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 88 - ... given Bardolph and Shallow as much wit as Prince Hal, and to have made Dogberry and Verges retort on each other in sparkling epigrams. But he knew...