Essay on MiltonAmerican book Company, 1903 - 160 pages |
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... Italian , the Dutch , the Spanish , the Hungarian , the Russian , the Bohemian , and the Persian languages , and has sold to the extent of at least a million copies . A check for £ 20,000 is still preserved by the Longmans Publishing ...
... Italian , the Dutch , the Spanish , the Hungarian , the Russian , the Bohemian , and the Persian languages , and has sold to the extent of at least a million copies . A check for £ 20,000 is still preserved by the Longmans Publishing ...
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... Italy . This general movement on the continent was experi- enced also in England . Suggestions for reform in repre- sentation and in taxation had been made by Pitt and by the Whigs before the close of the eighteenth century , but the ...
... Italy . This general movement on the continent was experi- enced also in England . Suggestions for reform in repre- sentation and in taxation had been made by Pitt and by the Whigs before the close of the eighteenth century , but the ...
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... Italian is to the Eng- lishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian , what the Bengalee is to other Hindoos , that was Nuncomar to other Bengalees . " Macaulay's concreteness and power of illustration may be mentioned together , for they ...
... Italian is to the Eng- lishman , what the Hindoo is to the Italian , what the Bengalee is to other Hindoos , that was Nuncomar to other Bengalees . " Macaulay's concreteness and power of illustration may be mentioned together , for they ...
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... Italian to enable him to verify the parallel between Milton and Dante . But the compli- ment that of all others came most nearly home — the only commendation of his literary talent which even in the innermost domestic circle he was ever ...
... Italian to enable him to verify the parallel between Milton and Dante . But the compli- ment that of all others came most nearly home — the only commendation of his literary talent which even in the innermost domestic circle he was ever ...
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... Italian , French , and English . This was the period in which he composed L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , the Arcades , Comus , and Lycidas . How small in bulk , but how ex ... Italy and France , he reached England 46 Macaulay's Essay on Milton.
... Italian , French , and English . This was the period in which he composed L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , the Arcades , Comus , and Lycidas . How small in bulk , but how ex ... Italy and France , he reached England 46 Macaulay's Essay on Milton.
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Page 103 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Page 104 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 115 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 61 - In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
Page 68 - His poetry acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words than in other words. But they are words of enchantment. No sooner are they pronounced, than the past is present and the distant near. New forms of beauty start at once into existence, and all the burial-places of the memory give up their dead.
Page 62 - 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 74 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd 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 104 - When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day ; he is unable to discriminate colors or recognize faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage.
Page 116 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Page 115 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. 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.