Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Volumen1Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... mind and body , yet he contrived to read more books than would have taken up all the leisure of professed literary men and to write his elaborate essays upon " Mackintosh " and " Bacon . " Macaulay was not happy in India . He never had ...
... mind and body , yet he contrived to read more books than would have taken up all the leisure of professed literary men and to write his elaborate essays upon " Mackintosh " and " Bacon . " Macaulay was not happy in India . He never had ...
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... mind . Not that Macaulay had invariably made a deep study of his theme , for his knowledge of that was often incomplete , sometimes super- ficial , but he had been reading all his life , he had gone into the great world , he had borne ...
... mind . Not that Macaulay had invariably made a deep study of his theme , for his knowledge of that was often incomplete , sometimes super- ficial , but he had been reading all his life , he had gone into the great world , he had borne ...
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... minds of all nations . He felt the truest reverence for those select masterpieces which have come down to us undimmed ... mind . He was not subtle nor analytical . With his usual good sense he felt , and with his usual honesty he avowed ...
... minds of all nations . He felt the truest reverence for those select masterpieces which have come down to us undimmed ... mind . He was not subtle nor analytical . With his usual good sense he felt , and with his usual honesty he avowed ...
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... mind richly stored with images from the dunghill and the lazarhouse . " The wish to glorify a consistent Whig led him to overcharge his praise of Addison , whose real merit might have dispensed with this exaggeration . Had Macaulay not ...
... mind richly stored with images from the dunghill and the lazarhouse . " The wish to glorify a consistent Whig led him to overcharge his praise of Addison , whose real merit might have dispensed with this exaggeration . Had Macaulay not ...
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... mind , and Gibbon had a great deal of both , was in fact a pre- cursor of the age of science . But these qualities do not seem to have struck Macaulay , nor does he seem to have been aware of the revolution in the study of history which ...
... mind , and Gibbon had a great deal of both , was in fact a pre- cursor of the age of science . But these qualities do not seem to have struck Macaulay , nor does he seem to have been aware of the revolution in the study of history which ...
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Página 301 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 23 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Página 286 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 52 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 350 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 23 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 270 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 45 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 319 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 352 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.