Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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Pagina 2
... seems to arise from the care- lessness of a native , not from the igno- rance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
... seems to arise from the care- lessness of a native , not from the igno- rance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
Pagina 4
... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . These are the fruits of ...
... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . These are the fruits of ...
Pagina 8
... seems entertained for the remains of Athenian to cry exultingly , and Roman poetry , consecrated by so many lofty and endearing recollec- tions . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors were of a kind to which his mind had a ...
... seems entertained for the remains of Athenian to cry exultingly , and Roman poetry , consecrated by so many lofty and endearing recollec- tions . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors were of a kind to which his mind had a ...
Pagina 12
... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that ... seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and grace- foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ...
... seems to depend on the knowledge which he possesses that he holds the fate of his torturer in his hands , and that ... seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and grace- foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ...
Pagina 21
... seems , no doubt , at driven from the noble course which he first sight , extraordinary . But all the had marked out for himself by the circumstances in which the country almost irresistible force of circum- was then placed were ...
... seems , no doubt , at driven from the noble course which he first sight , extraordinary . But all the had marked out for himself by the circumstances in which the country almost irresistible force of circum- was then placed were ...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1883 |
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Pagina 329 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pagina 356 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Pagina 146 - Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Pagina 175 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Pagina 146 - 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.
Pagina 412 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 238 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Pagina 412 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 413 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 399 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble; but the latter was attainable.