Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by A. MackieLongmans, Green & Company, 1884 - 179 страници |
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Страница vii
... chief thing , for which the classic is valuable , is its information . But surely the chief value of a classic is one of style . If so , why does this aspect not receive more attention from the annotator ? Why should he be PREFACE,
... chief thing , for which the classic is valuable , is its information . But surely the chief value of a classic is one of style . If so , why does this aspect not receive more attention from the annotator ? Why should he be PREFACE,
Страница viii
... , some as models of style , but it is rare to find a book striking in both aspects . Of Macaulay's essays , most are useful as illustrative of mere form ; of none can we say that the chief merit is the information ; viii.
... , some as models of style , but it is rare to find a book striking in both aspects . Of Macaulay's essays , most are useful as illustrative of mere form ; of none can we say that the chief merit is the information ; viii.
Страница x
... style in this essay is so emphatically marked , that we have chosen it , tainted though it is with vicious elements , as the most suitable for instruction from our point of view . Granting however that it is worth while for pupils to ...
... style in this essay is so emphatically marked , that we have chosen it , tainted though it is with vicious elements , as the most suitable for instruction from our point of view . Granting however that it is worth while for pupils to ...
Страница xi
... style with the Sentences and the Para- graphs , the Order of the Words and the Figures of Speech . He must point out Macaulay's man- nerisms , his love of Antithesis and of the Bal- anced Structure , his art in building compact and ...
... style with the Sentences and the Para- graphs , the Order of the Words and the Figures of Speech . He must point out Macaulay's man- nerisms , his love of Antithesis and of the Bal- anced Structure , his art in building compact and ...
Страница xii
... style . Another concession has been made in introducing a Memoir of Milton . This of course is useless except as information . All through the essay , Macaulay takes for granted a full knowledge of Milton's Life and Times , so much so ...
... style . Another concession has been made in introducing a Memoir of Milton . This of course is useless except as information . All through the essay , Macaulay takes for granted a full knowledge of Milton's Life and Times , so much so ...
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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...