The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Том 5Longmans, 1871 |
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... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not in short sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But ...
... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not in short sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But ...
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... tion of vigorous native poetry as the flower - pots of a hothouse to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and ...
... tion of vigorous native poetry as the flower - pots of a hothouse to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly wonderful . Never before were such marked originality and ...
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... tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a pro- selyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God ...
... tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a pro- selyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God ...
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... tion one act of James the Second to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fingers on a single article in the Declaration of Right , presented by the two Houses to William and Mary , which ...
... tion one act of James the Second to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fingers on a single article in the Declaration of Right , presented by the two Houses to William and Mary , which ...
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... tion was just and natural . If our rulers suffered from popular ignorance , it was because they had themselves taken away the key of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind ...
... tion was just and natural . If our rulers suffered from popular ignorance , it was because they had themselves taken away the key of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind ...
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Страница 468 - 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 39 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Страница 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
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.
Страница 538 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought...
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...