Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 4
... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and ...
... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and ...
Pagina 6
... . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may 6 MILTON .
... . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may 6 MILTON .
Pagina 7
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more ...
Pagina 27
... moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by ...
... moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by ...
Pagina 29
... moral world . Neither Theo- critus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
... moral world . Neither Theo- critus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
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