Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by A. MackieLongmans, Green & Company, 1884 - 179 страници |
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... better and more profitable to confine ourselves to Reading as mere Reading , to Derivation by itself , to the History apart , and to the Rhetoric apart , at separate sittings . " If the information is of any consequence it needs the ...
... better and more profitable to confine ourselves to Reading as mere Reading , to Derivation by itself , to the History apart , and to the Rhetoric apart , at separate sittings . " If the information is of any consequence it needs the ...
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... better to dwell on good and strikingly illustrative instances than to make a point of handling all and sundry with equal detail . Consequently , some pages are passed lightly over as being less profitable material than others more ...
... better to dwell on good and strikingly illustrative instances than to make a point of handling all and sundry with equal detail . Consequently , some pages are passed lightly over as being less profitable material than others more ...
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... better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he 5 looked back with something like regret to the ruder age ...
... better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he 5 looked back with something like regret to the ruder age ...
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... better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is * Mrs . Marcet ( 1769 ...
... better objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is * Mrs . Marcet ( 1769 ...
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... better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their pre- decessors . But analysis is not the business of ...
... better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their pre- decessors . But analysis is not the business of ...
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abruptness admire Æneid Æschylus Agonistes antithesis army Balance better called Catherine Macaulay character characteristic Charles chief circumstances classical clear climactic arrangement Comus concrete contrast criticism Cromwell Dante digression Divine Comedy effect emphasis England English essay Euripides example of Macaulay's Explicit Reference exposition Faithful Shepherdess feelings figure freedom Greek hero illustration images intellectual James James II king language Latin Leslie Stephen liberty literary literature lofty Long Parliament lyrical Macau Macaulay Mark means metaphor Milton Milton's conduct mind nature never noble opening sentence opinions Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paragraph Parallel Construction Parliament peculiar perfect period Petition of Right Petrarch philosopher phrase of reference poems poet poetical political principle profusion prominence prose public conduct Puritans reader remarks Revolution sake Samson Samson Agonistes semicolon simile spirit style theme thing thought tion topic tyrant words writers wrote ΙΟ
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Страница 63 - 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. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Страница 84 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница xxii - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Страница 75 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. 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.
Страница 76 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Страница 75 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier 10 hand.
Страница 75 - 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.
Страница 62 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.
Страница 77 - Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them.
Страница 75 - If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away...