The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: In Two Volumes...Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... motives , and objects of desire , and the greatest happiness of the greatest number , is but a poor employment for a grown man , it certainly hurts the health less than hard drinking and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much ...
... motives , and objects of desire , and the greatest happiness of the greatest number , is but a poor employment for a grown man , it certainly hurts the health less than hard drinking and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much ...
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... motives , I am willing to believe , were laudable . But I feel , and it is the duty of every literary man to feel , a strong jealousy of their pro- ceedings . Their society can be innocent only while it continues to be despicable ...
... motives , I am willing to believe , were laudable . But I feel , and it is the duty of every literary man to feel , a strong jealousy of their pro- ceedings . Their society can be innocent only while it continues to be despicable ...
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... motive of patriotism , the poet completely passes over . BOOK XII . THINGS are now hastening to the catastrophe . Napoleon flies to London , and , seating himself on the hearth of the Regent , embraces the household gods , and conjures ...
... motive of patriotism , the poet completely passes over . BOOK XII . THINGS are now hastening to the catastrophe . Napoleon flies to London , and , seating himself on the hearth of the Regent , embraces the household gods , and conjures ...
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... motive of industry ; the abolition of debts , and the agrarian laws — proposi- tions absurdly condemned by men who do not consider the circumstances from which they sprung . They were the desperate remedies of a desperate disease . In ...
... motive of industry ; the abolition of debts , and the agrarian laws — proposi- tions absurdly condemned by men who do not consider the circumstances from which they sprung . They were the desperate remedies of a desperate disease . In ...
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... motive , — of whose feelings we can form no more idea than of a sixth sense . We have left a race of creatures , whose love is as delicate and affectionate as the passion which an alderman feels for a turtle . We find ourselves among ...
... motive , — of whose feelings we can form no more idea than of a sixth sense . We have left a race of creatures , whose love is as delicate and affectionate as the passion which an alderman feels for a turtle . We find ourselves among ...
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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.