The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord MacaulayLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts & Green, 1865 - 395 páginas |
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... friend Euripides * say 66 The land where thou art prosperous is thy country " ? Surely we ought to say to every lady " The land where thou art pretty is thy country . " Besides , to exclude foreign beauties from the chorus of the ...
... friend Euripides * say 66 The land where thou art prosperous is thy country " ? Surely we ought to say to every lady " The land where thou art pretty is thy country . " Besides , to exclude foreign beauties from the chorus of the ...
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... friends and his rivals were the witnesses of his glory . If he fell , he was consigned to no venal or heedless guardians . The same day saw him conveyed within the walls which he had defended . His wounds were dressed by his mother ...
... friends and his rivals were the witnesses of his glory . If he fell , he was consigned to no venal or heedless guardians . The same day saw him conveyed within the walls which he had defended . His wounds were dressed by his mother ...
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... friend , every line is crowded with examples and quotations , and sounds big with Anaxagoras and Scipio . Such was the interest excited by the character of Petrarch , and such the admiration which was felt for his epis - holders ...
... friend , every line is crowded with examples and quotations , and sounds big with Anaxagoras and Scipio . Such was the interest excited by the character of Petrarch , and such the admiration which was felt for his epis - holders ...
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... friend , " he would say , " what pressed more and more for money . The situation have you in my family ? " parish could pay no more . The rector " Bless your honour ! " says the poor refused to lend a farthing . fellow , " I am not one ...
... friend , " he would say , " what pressed more and more for money . The situation have you in my family ? " parish could pay no more . The rector " Bless your honour ! " says the poor refused to lend a farthing . fellow , " I am not one ...
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... friends will not be displeased to have a record both of the strange times through which I have lived , and of the famous men with whom I have conversed . It chanced , in the warm and beautiful spring of the year 1665 , a little before ...
... friends will not be displeased to have a record both of the strange times through which I have lived , and of the famous men with whom I have conversed . It chanced , in the warm and beautiful spring of the year 1665 , a little before ...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1865 |
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Página 365 - And he — he turns, he flies: — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war...
Página 129 - ... historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality; for one half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel.
Página 23 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 199 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 364 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line : For God ! for the Cause ! for the Church ! for the Laws ! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine!
Página 310 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Página 89 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr. Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage?
Página 379 - Scargill's whispering trees, and pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees; beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, each morning started from the dream to weep ; till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave the resting-place I asked, an early grave.
Página 106 - ... all this is very easy. But to be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which We should be inclined to designate as faultless, or as disfigured only by blemishes which pass unnoticed in the general blaze of excellence. There are Speeches, some speeches of Demosthenes particularly, in which it would be impossible to alter a word, without altering it for the worse.
Página 299 - Baldearg O'Donnell and galloping Hogan, and about the exploits of Peterborough and Stanhope, the surprise of Monjuich, and the glorious disaster of Brihuega. This man must have been of the Protestant religion ; but he was of the aboriginal race, and not only spoke the Irish language, but could pour forth unpremeditated Irish verses.