The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Том 5Longmans, 1871 |
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... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
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... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ” to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ” to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
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... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual ...
... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that the hour of his release will surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual ...
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... Milton delight to dwell , his conduct during the administration of the Protector . That an enthu- siastic votary of liberty should accept office under a military VOL . V. D usurper seems , no doubt , at first sight , MILTON . 33.
... Milton delight to dwell , his conduct during the administration of the Protector . That an enthu- siastic votary of liberty should accept office under a military VOL . V. D usurper seems , no doubt , at first sight , MILTON . 33.
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... seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members ...
... seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members ...
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Страница 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Страница 159 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
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Страница 6 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Страница 91 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
Страница 386 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Страница 418 - ... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great...