 Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to...  Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 211by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 586 pages
...graven, appeared in Poet's Corner. It represents him, as we can conceive him, clad in his dressing-gown, and freed from his wig, stepping from his parlour...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. No. CLVlll will be published in October. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1843. CJLYIII. ART. I. —... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...as we can conceive him, clad in his dressing-gown, and freed from his ig, stepping from his parlor at Chelsea into his trim little garden, with the account...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. HER NAME. VICTOR :u i. ii. A LILT'S pure perfume ; a lialn's light; The Evening's voices mingling soft... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...parlor at Chelsea nto his trim little garden, with the account of the Everlasting Club, or the Loves f Hilpa and Shalum, just finished for the next day's...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. HER NAME. VICTOR HUGO. A LILY'S pure perfume ; a halo's light ; The Evening's voices mingling soft... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...graven, appeared in Poet's Corner. It represents him, as we can conceive him, clad in his dressing-gown, and freed from his wig, stepping from his parlour...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. BARERE'S MEMOIRS.* [Edinburgh Review, April, 1844.] THIS book has more than one title to our serious... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners, but, above all, to the great satirist, who so well knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who,...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that I first rambled... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners, but, above all, to the great satirist, who so well knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who,...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. CAWDOR CASTLE— MACBETHSUPERSTITION. IT was in the sunny and leafy month of June that I first rambled... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...that it was the crowning glory of Addison to have " reconciled wit and virtue after a long and painful separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by fanaticism." This reconciliation was effected in those remarkable sheets, — the origin of our reviews and magazines,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 332 pages
...public veneration. At length, in our own time, his image, skilfully graven, appeared in Poet's Corner. It represents him, as we can conceive him, clad in...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. ilacaulay, Essays. V. 11 THE EARL OF CHATHAM. (OCTOBER, 1844.) 1. Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...as we can conceive him, clad in his dressing-gown, and freed from his wig, stepping from his parlor at Chelsea into his trim little garden, with the account...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. [RICHARD HURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left a careful examination of... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 444 pages
...English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the peal satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without...led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-REGISTERING MAGNETIC AND METEOROLOGICAL APPARATUS. INVF.MTED BY MR. BROOKE, OF KEPPBL-STRBET,... | |
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