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In proportion as men know more and think more , they look less at individuals
and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems .
They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead
of ...
In proportion as men know more and think more , they look less at individuals
and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems .
They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead
of ...
Pagina 11
We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton
ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply
which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over
every ...
We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton
ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply
which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his imagination triumphed over
every ...
Pagina 14
They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr.
Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies ,
so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a ...
They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr.
Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies ,
so that the same face looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a ...
Pagina 27
No person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows
of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and
contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud
and too ...
No person can look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows
of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and
contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud
and too ...
Pagina 30
But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of
mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be
scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from ...
But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of
mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be
scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from ...
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| Titel | Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1 Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Auteur | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Uitgever | Longmans, Green, 1895 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Cornell University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 23 maart 2012 |
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