The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volumen6Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... enemies and traitors , maintained , with a spirit as brave as that of the column of Fontenoy , first for victory , and then for honourable retreat . Horace was , of course , on the side of his family . Lord Dover seems to have been ...
... enemies and traitors , maintained , with a spirit as brave as that of the column of Fontenoy , first for victory , and then for honourable retreat . Horace was , of course , on the side of his family . Lord Dover seems to have been ...
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... enemies and feeble allies . His most distinguished coadjutors left him one by one , and joined the ranks of the Opposition . He faced the increasing array of his enemies with unbroken spirit , and thought it far better that they should ...
... enemies and feeble allies . His most distinguished coadjutors left him one by one , and joined the ranks of the Opposition . He faced the increasing array of his enemies with unbroken spirit , and thought it far better that they should ...
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... enemies , but to the entreaties of his dispirited and refractory followers . When he could no longer retain his power , he compounded for honour and security , and retired to his garden and his paintings , leaving to those who had ...
... enemies , but to the entreaties of his dispirited and refractory followers . When he could no longer retain his power , he compounded for honour and security , and retired to his garden and his paintings , leaving to those who had ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Lady Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan. his triumphant enemies . But there was little for him to do . Victory had completely dissolved the hollow truce , which the two sections of the opposition had ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Lady Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan. his triumphant enemies . But there was little for him to do . Victory had completely dissolved the hollow truce , which the two sections of the opposition had ...
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... enemies of Sir Robert . In the Memoirs , Horace Walpole , after passing in review all the great men whom England had produced within his me- mory , concludes by saying , that in genius none of them equalled Lord Granville . Smollett ...
... enemies of Sir Robert . In the Memoirs , Horace Walpole , after passing in review all the great men whom England had produced within his me- mory , concludes by saying , that in genius none of them equalled Lord Granville . Smollett ...
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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 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 629 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Página 190 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Página 518 - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Página 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 631 - ... negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham.
Página 396 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Página 518 - O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute what these lines express: You merit more; nor could my love do less.
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.