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... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . Edinburgh Review . No. C. 1830 . 334 - MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . 388 Edinburgh Review . - No. CVI . 1831 . SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 428 Edinburgh Review . No. CVIII . 1831 ...
... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . Edinburgh Review . No. C. 1830 . 334 - MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . 388 Edinburgh Review . - No. CVI . 1831 . SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 428 Edinburgh Review . No. CVIII . 1831 ...
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... Southey's account of Nelson , are perused with delight by the most frivolous and indolent . Whenever any tolerable book of the same description makes its appearance , the cir- culating libraries are mobbed ; the book societies are in ...
... Southey's account of Nelson , are perused with delight by the most frivolous and indolent . Whenever any tolerable book of the same description makes its appearance , the cir- culating libraries are mobbed ; the book societies are in ...
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... if , at that crisis , her interests be confided to men for whom history has not recorded the long series of human crimes and follies in vain . SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . * [ Edinburgh Review , HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY . 333 .
... if , at that crisis , her interests be confided to men for whom history has not recorded the long series of human crimes and follies in vain . SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . * [ Edinburgh Review , HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY . 333 .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . * [ Edinburgh Review , 1830. ] It would be scarcely possible for a man of Mr. Southey's talents and acquirements to write two volumes so large as those before us ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . * [ Edinburgh Review , 1830. ] It would be scarcely possible for a man of Mr. Southey's talents and acquirements to write two volumes so large as those before us ...
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... Southey one of the fine arts . He judges of a theory or a public measure , of a religion , a political party , a ... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . 335.
... Southey one of the fine arts . He judges of a theory or a public measure , of a religion , a political party , a ... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . 335.
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Página 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 227 - 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 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Página 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Página 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
Página 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Página 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.