Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - 898 страници |
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... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our de- finition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other ...
... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our de- finition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other ...
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... mind . He must unlearn much of suited to the production of vigorous that knowledge which has perhaps con - native poetry as the flower - pots of a stituted hitherto his chief title to supe - hot - house to the growth of oaks . That ...
... mind . He must unlearn much of suited to the production of vigorous that knowledge which has perhaps con - native poetry as the flower - pots of a stituted hitherto his chief title to supe - hot - house to the growth of oaks . That ...
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... mind through conductors . The most unimaginative man must un - place of our infancy revisited in man- derstand the Iliad . Homer gives him no choice , and requires from him no exertion , but takes the whole upon him- self , and sets the ...
... mind through conductors . The most unimaginative man must un - place of our infancy revisited in man- derstand the Iliad . Homer gives him no choice , and requires from him no exertion , but takes the whole upon him- self , and sets the ...
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... mind overcame every turned every consolation and every calamity . Neither blindness , nor gout , pleasure into its own nature . It re- nor age , nor penury , nor domestic sembled that noxious Sardinian soil of afflictions , nor ...
... mind overcame every turned every consolation and every calamity . Neither blindness , nor gout , pleasure into its own nature . It re- nor age , nor penury , nor domestic sembled that noxious Sardinian soil of afflictions , nor ...
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... mind continu- his hand is firm . He does nought in ally fixed on an Almighty Judge and hate , but all in honour . He kisses the an eternal reward . And hence he beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . acquired their contempt of ...
... mind continu- his hand is firm . He does nought in ally fixed on an Almighty Judge and hate , but all in honour . He kisses the an eternal reward . And hence he beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . acquired their contempt of ...
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Страница 24 - ... the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.
Страница 183 - suggested that luxury corrupts a people, and destroys the spirit of liberty. JOHNSON : Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?" SIR ADAM: " But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so...
Страница 139 - We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ;...
Страница 639 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst...
Страница 23 - Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.
Страница 354 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Страница 121 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do...
Страница 134 - That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giant-killer.
Страница 410 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Страница 135 - Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge. All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and hobgoblins, ill-favoured ones, and shining ones, the tall, comely, swarthy Madam Bubble, with her great purse by her side, and her fingers playing with the money, the black man in the bright vesture, Mr. Worldly Wiseman and my Lord Hategood, Mr. Talkative, and...