The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: In Two Volumes...Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... produce as rivals to these two famous leaders ? " " Time will show . I would hope that there may arise a man , whose genius to conquer , to conciliate , and to govern , may unite in one cause an oppressed and divided people ; may do all ...
... produce as rivals to these two famous leaders ? " " Time will show . I would hope that there may arise a man , whose genius to conquer , to conciliate , and to govern , may unite in one cause an oppressed and divided people ; may do all ...
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... produce an animal fit , not to be eaten , but to be weighed . Accordingly he pampers his victim into morbid and unnatural fatness ; and , when it is in such a state that it would be sent away in disgust from any table , he offers it to ...
... produce an animal fit , not to be eaten , but to be weighed . Accordingly he pampers his victim into morbid and unnatural fatness ; and , when it is in such a state that it would be sent away in disgust from any table , he offers it to ...
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... produce , by means of bounties , from soil too meagre to have yielded any returns in the natural course of things . The plan for the cultivation of Dartmoor has , I hear , been abandoned . I hope that this may be an omen of the fate of ...
... produce , by means of bounties , from soil too meagre to have yielded any returns in the natural course of things . The plan for the cultivation of Dartmoor has , I hear , been abandoned . I hope that this may be an omen of the fate of ...
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... produced by CALLIDEMUS . He does ! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains ! Nay talk rationally . SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . Rationally ! You audacious young sophist ! I will talk rationally . Do you know that I am your ...
... produced by CALLIDEMUS . He does ! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains ! Nay talk rationally . SPEUSIPPUS . CALLIDEMUS . Rationally ! You audacious young sophist ! I will talk rationally . Do you know that I am your ...
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... producing the finest narrative poem of modern times , but also of creating a language , distinguished by unrivalled melody , and peculiarly capable of furnishing to lofty and passionate thoughts their appropriate garb of severe and ...
... producing the finest narrative poem of modern times , but also of creating a language , distinguished by unrivalled melody , and peculiarly capable of furnishing to lofty and passionate thoughts their appropriate garb of severe and ...
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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.