 | 1831 - 652 страници
...which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spencer himself, though assuredly one of i In- greatest poets that ever lived, could not succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House of Pride, and the House of Temperance.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of...succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House of Pride, and the House of Temperance.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 страници
...in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House of Pride, and the House of Temperance. One unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness, pervades the whole of the Faerie Queen. We become sick of Cardinal Virtues and Deadly Sins, and long for the society of plain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 страници
...pleasure •which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. amities arising from the collection of wealth in the hands of a few capitalists are to conld not succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of...succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House of Pride and the House of Temperance.... | |
 | 1874 - 714 страници
...more just Legislature, Aud impose an Agrarian Law upon Nature." WMM MACAULAY : SPENSER : BUNYAN. — " One unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness, pervades the whole of the Faery Queen. We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins, and long for the society of plain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 368 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of...succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House of Pride and the House of Temperance.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of...succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the " House of Pride," and the " House of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the fcelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of the greatest poets that ever lived, could not suecced in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 страници
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. , Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of...succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting. It was in vain that he lavished the riches of his mind on the House ( f Pride, and the House of Temperance.... | |
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It is a pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. Nay, even Spenser himself, though assuredly one of the greatest poets that ever lived, could not succeed in the attempt to make allegory interesting.... 
