 Lara-like peer. The number of hopeful undergraduates and medical students who became things of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 372by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 738 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...affectation has passed away; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...the relief of (ears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was i-realed in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious...affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...misanthropy and voluptuousness; a system in which the Iwo great commandments were, lo hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife. This affectation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years... | |
 | The Westminster Review January-April 1841 - 1841 - 582 pages
...that licentiousness and misanthropy were the attributes of genius, or, as Macaulay wittily said, " a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and love your neighbour's wife;" and many a young mind, staggered by the problem of the universe, on turning... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...affectation has passed away; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us... | |
 | Heredity - 1844 - 220 pages
...him here or hereafter." Macauly also says, that " from the poetry of Lord Byron his youthful admirers drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy...which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife." Here again were manifested the violent and bitter temper... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many...ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical... | |
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