Churchill's Literary Allusions: An Index to the Education of a Soldier, Statesman, and LitterateurMcFarland, 1987 - 219 pagina's |
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... Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome , even memorizing all 1200 lines of it . This familiarity and his interest in classical history made this work prominent . Early in his adult life , Churchill read and was greatly influenced by Macaulay's ...
... Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome , even memorizing all 1200 lines of it . This familiarity and his interest in classical history made this work prominent . Early in his adult life , Churchill read and was greatly influenced by Macaulay's ...
Pagina 143
... Macaulay's hackneyed phrase — ' as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe . ' 755 As Macaulay said : - There is a crassa ignorantia and a crassa negli- gentia on which the law animadverts in magis- trates and ...
... Macaulay's hackneyed phrase — ' as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe . ' 755 As Macaulay said : - There is a crassa ignorantia and a crassa negli- gentia on which the law animadverts in magis- trates and ...
Pagina 147
... Macaulay's life - work lay in the region of words , and few have been finer word- spinners . Marlborough's life is only known by his deeds . The comparison is unequal , because words are easy and many , while great deeds are difficult ...
... Macaulay's life - work lay in the region of words , and few have been finer word- spinners . Marlborough's life is only known by his deeds . The comparison is unequal , because words are easy and many , while great deeds are difficult ...
Inhoudsopgave
Organization of the Book | 5 |
NineteenthCentury Fiction | 118 |
Victorian Poets | 125 |
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Churchill's Literary Allusions: An Index to the Education of a Soldier ... Darrell Holley Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1987 |
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