The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: In Two Volumes...Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... fact is that Dante and Petrarch have been the Oro- masdes and Arimanes of Italian literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation ...
... fact is that Dante and Petrarch have been the Oro- masdes and Arimanes of Italian literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation ...
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... fact is , that , while the public homage was paid to some absurdities with which his works may be justly charged , and to many more which were falsely imputed to them , while lecturers were paid to expound and eulogise his physics , his ...
... fact is , that , while the public homage was paid to some absurdities with which his works may be justly charged , and to many more which were falsely imputed to them , while lecturers were paid to expound and eulogise his physics , his ...
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... fact is , that supernatural beings , as long as they are considered merely with reference to their own nature , excite our feelings very feebly . It is when the great gulf which separates them from us is passed , when we suspect some ...
... fact is , that supernatural beings , as long as they are considered merely with reference to their own nature , excite our feelings very feebly . It is when the great gulf which separates them from us is passed , when we suspect some ...
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... is not tired to death with pure description of scenery ? Is it not the fact , that external * Inferno , canto i . objects never strongly excite our feelings but when they are F 2 CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 67.
... is not tired to death with pure description of scenery ? Is it not the fact , that external * Inferno , canto i . objects never strongly excite our feelings but when they are F 2 CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 67.
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... fact , be called a new passion ; and it is not astonishing that the first poet of eminence who wholly devoted his genius to this theme should have excited an extraordinary sensation . He may be compared to an adventurer who accidentally ...
... fact , be called a new passion ; and it is not astonishing that the first poet of eminence who wholly devoted his genius to this theme should have excited an extraordinary sensation . He may be compared to an adventurer who accidentally ...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1865 |
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1865 |
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Página 279 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 175 - Artaxerxes' throne; To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates, see there his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe...
Página 233 - ... must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque. Yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner. Yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.
Página 179 - In the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, — wherever it brings gladness to eyes •which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep, — there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens.
Página 276 - More than one illustrious stranger has landed on our island amidst the shouts of a mob, has dined with the King, has hunted with the master of the stag-hounds, has seen the Guards reviewed, and a Knight of the Garter installed, has cantered along Regent Street, has visited St. Paul's, and noted down its dimensions; and has then departed, thinking that he has seen England.
Página 206 - Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Página 232 - It is under the jurisdiction of two hostile powers ; and, like other districts similarly situated, it is ill defined, ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being* equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.
Página 242 - No picture, then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole.
Página 278 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Página 70 - Latin models could only have served to mislead him. Indeed, it is impossible not to remark his admiration of writers far inferior to himself ; and, in particular, his idolatry of Virgil, who, elegant and splendid as he is, has no pretensions to the depth and originality of mind which characterize his Tuscan worshipper.