 They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has...  John Milton - Page 104by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...superior bloom and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They arc powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...weakness, and, in too many instances, the malignancy of his enemies, have sought to load it, " We envy not the man who can study either the life or the writings...enriched our literature, — but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior bloom and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful not only...elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study cither the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior bloom and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior bloom and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not...elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can MACAO. 31 study the life and writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior bloom and sweetness, butbytlieir miraculous effic.acy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nordo we envy the man who can study either the lil'u or the writings of the great Poet and Patriot... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior bloom and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy t ɪ یӀ 0 ~"c 1846 Carey and...Macaulay""Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay(" driven into the th« writings of the great Poet and Patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by their superior blocm and sweetness, but by their miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful not only to delight, but to purify." And in his recently published " History of England," he has thus beautifully spoken of Milton—"... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...distinguished in the universe as the favourites and the heirs of heaven." With the eloquent Macaulay, wo do not envy " the man who can study either the life or the...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good — the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity — the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...productions of other soils, not only by thcir superior bloom and sweetness, but by thcir miraculous efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not...elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study cither the life or the writings of the great Poet and Patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indced... | |
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