Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Том 1Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... less for society . If the taste for letters be hereditary , it came to Macaulay rather from his mother than from his father . Mrs. Macaulay was the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol named Mills . She had been a favourite pupil ...
... less for society . If the taste for letters be hereditary , it came to Macaulay rather from his mother than from his father . Mrs. Macaulay was the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol named Mills . She had been a favourite pupil ...
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... less and less in sympathy . The spirit of ascetic piety and the love of letters are not easily reconciled . Zachary must often have thought his son's pursuits frivolous , and sometimes tried to hinder his son's cleverness from breeding ...
... less and less in sympathy . The spirit of ascetic piety and the love of letters are not easily reconciled . Zachary must often have thought his son's pursuits frivolous , and sometimes tried to hinder his son's cleverness from breeding ...
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... less and less able to make head against adversity , so that the burden of supporting the family fell in some measure upon Macaulay . His fellowship , tenable by a layman for seven years only , was running out and his office of ...
... less and less able to make head against adversity , so that the burden of supporting the family fell in some measure upon Macaulay . His fellowship , tenable by a layman for seven years only , was running out and his office of ...
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... less than for Valerius Flaccus and Sidonius Apollinaris . The gentle flow of the Ticin brings a line of Silius to his mind . The sulphurous stream of Albula suggests to him several passages of Martial . But he has not a word to say of ...
... less than for Valerius Flaccus and Sidonius Apollinaris . The gentle flow of the Ticin brings a line of Silius to his mind . The sulphurous stream of Albula suggests to him several passages of Martial . But he has not a word to say of ...
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... less obvious , but is , as Mr. Cotter Morrison has observed , even more admirable . Faults , indeed , may be detected , as in every great fabric of art . The emphasis is too uniform ; there is too little inter- change of quiet with ...
... less obvious , but is , as Mr. Cotter Morrison has observed , even more admirable . Faults , indeed , may be detected , as in every great fabric of art . The emphasis is too uniform ; there is too little inter- change of quiet with ...
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Страница 23 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Страница 286 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Страница 52 - 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 350 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
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Страница 270 - 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 ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Страница 45 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Страница 319 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Страница 352 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.