Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essaysHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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... pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By ...
... pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By ...
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... pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems ...
... pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems ...
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... pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , " a land of dark ...
... pleasure into its own nature . It resembled that noxious Sardinian soil of which the intense bitterness is said to have been perceptible even in its honey . His mind was , in the noble language of the Hebrew poet , " a land of dark ...
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... pleasure its charms . They had their smiles and their tears , their raptures and their sorrows , but not for the things of this world . Enthusiasm had made them . Stoics , had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice ...
... pleasure its charms . They had their smiles and their tears , their raptures and their sorrows , but not for the things of this world . Enthusiasm had made them . Stoics , had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice ...
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... pleasure . Hating tyranny with a per- fect hatred , he had nevertheless all the estimable and orna- mental qualities ... pleasures of fascination : but he was not fascinated . He listened to the song of the sirens ; yet he glided by ...
... pleasure . Hating tyranny with a per- fect hatred , he had nevertheless all the estimable and orna- mental qualities ... pleasures of fascination : but he was not fascinated . He listened to the song of the sirens ; yet he glided by ...
Términos y frases comunes
absurd admiration appear argument aristocracy Bentham Boswell century character Charles Christian Church civil common constitution Croker departments of France despotism doctrine doubt Dryden effect eminent England English equal evil exist fact favor fecundity feelings France genius give greatest happiness principle Hallam Herodotus honor House human nature imagination interest Jews Johnson King less liberty lived Long Parliament Lord Byron Machiavelli manner marriages means ment Mill Mill's Milton mind monarchy moral nation ness never noble object opinion Parliament party passage peculiar person pleasure poems poet poetry political population Prince produced prove Puritans question readers reason religion respect Revolution Robert Montgomery Sadler scarcely seems Shakspeare society sophisms Southey spirit square mile strong superfecundity taste tells theory Thucydides tion truth Utilitarian wealth Westminster Reviewer Whigs whole words writer
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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...