Essays on Milton and AddisonAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 170 páginas |
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... necessary to run to the biographical dictionaries when a name appears . Sometimes investigation will reveal only so much as the author himself tells in a word or two , and to find even this will cost time . If Macaulay says a writer is ...
... necessary to run to the biographical dictionaries when a name appears . Sometimes investigation will reveal only so much as the author himself tells in a word or two , and to find even this will cost time . If Macaulay says a writer is ...
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... necessary in reading pieces so overcharged with allu- sion . It is only the ancient classics whose every word is precious . The reader of English must reach the end of the chapter . Infinite other chapters await his eager attention ...
... necessary in reading pieces so overcharged with allu- sion . It is only the ancient classics whose every word is precious . The reader of English must reach the end of the chapter . Infinite other chapters await his eager attention ...
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... necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and ...
... necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and ...
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... in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw 22 Select Essays of Macaulay .
... in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw 22 Select Essays of Macaulay .
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... necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping imma- teriality out of sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his ...
... necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping imma- teriality out of sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his ...
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Página 210 - ... whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate, or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it.
Página 213 - In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union. From the Parliament and from the Court, from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads, and from the Christmas revel of the hospitable Cavalier, his nature selected and drew to itself whatever was great and good, while it rejected all the base and pernicious ingredients by which those finer elements were defiled. Like the Puritans, he lived "As ever...
Página 210 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.
Página 167 - 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 poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 208 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from Him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
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Página 226 - The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Página 218 - ... the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which he so sternly kept with his country and with his fame.
Página 218 - ... superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize ; and of these was Milton. The sight of his books, the sound of his name, are pleasant to its. His thoughts resemble those celestial fruits and flowers which the Virgin Martyr of Massinger sent down from the gardens of paradise to the earth, and which were distinguished from the productions of other soils, not only by superior bloom and sweetness, but by miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal.
Página 233 - Aikin has committed the errar, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments. In one department of learning, indeed, his proficiency was such as it is hardly possible to overrate. His knowledge of the Latin poets, from Lucretius and Catullus down to Claudian and Prudentius, was singularly exact and profound.