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" Some years before his death, Dryden altogether ceased to write for the stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties. The first rank in poetry was... "
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay - Page 102
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 395 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success tho most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties....competitors. All his natural, and all his acquired powers, fitted him to found a good critical school of poetry. Indeed he carried his reforms too far...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...faculties. The first rank in poetry was beyond his reach, but he challenged and secured the most honorable place in the second. His imagination resembled the...in a lower region, he outstripped all competitors. AH his natural, and all his acquired powers, fitted him to found a good critical school of poetry....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties....his reach, but he challenged and secured the most honorable place in the second. His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties....first rank in poetry was beyond his reach, but he chaHenged and secured the most honorable place in the second. His imagination resembled the wings of...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties....to run, though not to soar. When he attempted the VOL. i.—10 highest flights, he became ridiculous; but while he remained in a lower region, he outstripped...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 29

Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...challenged and secured the most honorable place in the second. His imagination resembled the wings of the ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar....in a lower region, he outstripped all competitors." gest the other. The elder Pitt committed to memory some of Dr. Barrow's sermons. If Barrow, himself,...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His ulay powers fitted him to found a good critical school of poetry. Indeed, he carried his reforms too far...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His taste had gradually awakened his creative faculties....his reach, but he challenged and secured the most honorable place in the second. His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His carcely ever took wine. But when he drank it, he drank...deadly malignity in his friends Savage and Boyce. ran, though not to soar. When he attempted the highest flights, he became ridiculous ; but while he...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...stage. He had turned his powers in a new direction, with success the most splendid and decisive. His erve his adherents. It was a kind of habit with him to push up his Ьез-ond his reach, but he challenged and secured the most honourable place in the second. His imagination...
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