Milton. Machiavelli. Hallam's Constitutional history. Southey's Colloquies on society. Mr. Robert Montgomery's poems. Southey's edition of The pilgrim's progress. Civil disabilities of the Jews. Moore's Life of Lord Byron. Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Burleigh and his times. War of the succession in Spain. Horace WalpoleMethuen, 1903 - English essays |
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... caused by unavoidable haste . The author has sometimes , like other contributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , dates ...
... caused by unavoidable haste . The author has sometimes , like other contributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , dates ...
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... cause of negro freedom , Zachary Macaulay neglected his own business concerns until they fell into a disorder beyond the possibility of repair . As his children grew up , his means of settling them in the world diminished , and Thomas ...
... cause of negro freedom , Zachary Macaulay neglected his own business concerns until they fell into a disorder beyond the possibility of repair . As his children grew up , his means of settling them in the world diminished , and Thomas ...
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... causes was secondary to the charm of a tale . In this kind there has been nothing so perfect as the entrancing work of Herodotus . At a later and more reflective period history was valued , not only INTRODUCTION xxxix.
... causes was secondary to the charm of a tale . In this kind there has been nothing so perfect as the entrancing work of Herodotus . At a later and more reflective period history was valued , not only INTRODUCTION xxxix.
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... causes . It was thus that in the essay on " Bur- leigh " he described the French Revolution as " a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . " It would be readily admitted now that the French Revolution ...
... causes . It was thus that in the essay on " Bur- leigh " he described the French Revolution as " a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . " It would be readily admitted now that the French Revolution ...
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... the same degree , and it is not freedom from faults , but the possession of unique qualities , which causes books as well as men to be held in living remem- brance . IT MACAULAY'S ESSAYS MILTON AUGUST , 1825 NOTE ON THE xlviii INTRODUCTION.
... the same degree , and it is not freedom from faults , but the possession of unique qualities , which causes books as well as men to be held in living remem- brance . IT MACAULAY'S ESSAYS MILTON AUGUST , 1825 NOTE ON THE xlviii INTRODUCTION.
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Page 17 - 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.
Page 298 - 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.
Page 46 - 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.
Page 39 - 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.
Page 362 - 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.
Page 17 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Page 282 - 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.
Page 8 - 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.
Page 331 - 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.
Page 48 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.