Critical and Historical EssaysLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874 - 855 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
... never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
Pagina 21
... never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few ...
... never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few ...
Pagina 22
... Never before had religious liberty and policy of the state . The government the freedom of discussion been enjoyed had just ability enough to deceive , and in a greater degree . Never had the just religion enough to persecute . The ...
... Never before had religious liberty and policy of the state . The government the freedom of discussion been enjoyed had just ability enough to deceive , and in a greater degree . Never had the just religion enough to persecute . The ...
Pagina 38
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is in- clined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the in- sanity of uncontrolled power , but from We must apply this ...
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is in- clined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the in- sanity of uncontrolled power , but from We must apply this ...
Pagina 39
... never confused his percep- an amplitude and subtlety of intellect tions , never paralysed his inventive which would have rendered them emi- faculties , never wrung out one secret nent either in active or in contempla- from his smooth ...
... never confused his percep- an amplitude and subtlety of intellect tions , never paralysed his inventive which would have rendered them emi- faculties , never wrung out one secret nent either in active or in contempla- from his smooth ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1901 |
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