But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society... Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 10by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1850 - 806 pages
...question, aa far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, ' Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical.' Without implying that the Welsh people are not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imagination. It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of...an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half civilised people is poetical. This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation. It may, indeed, improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of...philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. This change in the language of men is partly the cause, and partly the effect of a corresponding change... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...question, as far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, " Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical." Without implying that the Welsh people are not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...laws of progress towards perfection in both, do not essentially differ: nor do we even concede that "language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest s^ate." As an instrument, it is certainly capable of improvement like the instruments of the mathematician,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation. It may, indeed, improve the instruments an inind which has so much of what may be called the race, This change in i. language of men is partly the cause, and partly the effect of a corresponding change... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...question, as far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, ' Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical.' Without implying that the Welsh people arc not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| 1850 - 602 pages
...far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Мг>Мясаи1ау has justly observed, "Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical — thet of a half-civilized people is poetical." Without implying that the Welsh people are not as... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation. It may, indeed, improve the instrument which are necessary to the mechanical operations of...machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in ils rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular... | |
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