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... kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior to the Faithful Shepherdess as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido . It was well for Milton that he had here no Euripides to mislead him ...
... kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior to the Faithful Shepherdess as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido . It was well for Milton that he had here no Euripides to mislead him ...
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... kind and generous feelings . Prometheus , however , is hardly super- human enough . He talks too much of his chains and his uneasy posture : he is rather too much depressed and agitated . His resolution seems to depend on the knowledge ...
... kind and generous feelings . Prometheus , however , is hardly super- human enough . He talks too much of his chains and his uneasy posture : he is rather too much depressed and agitated . His resolution seems to depend on the knowledge ...
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... kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the ...
... kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the ...
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... kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be mor bidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but ...
... kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be mor bidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but ...
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... of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage , and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors . Nor is this all . Posterity , that high court of appeal which is never MACHIAVELLI . 85.
... of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage , and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors . Nor is this all . Posterity , that high court of appeal which is never MACHIAVELLI . 85.
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1899 |
Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista de fragmentos - 1880 |
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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 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 56 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 56 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 117 - And during the whole speech of the ghost, he sat with his eyes fixed partly on the ghost and partly on Hamlet, and with his mouth open; the same passions which succeeded each other in Hamlet succeeding likewise in him. When the scene was over, Jones said, Why, Partridge, you exceed my expectations. You enjoy the play more than I conceived possible.
Página 116 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 199 - To make the past present, to bring the distant near, to place us in the society of a great man, or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory, to call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to...
Página 61 - What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
Página 57 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms.
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.