Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pagina's |
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... necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and ...
... necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and ...
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... necessary , there- fore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real ex- planation of the indistinctness and ...
... necessary , there- fore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real ex- planation of the indistinctness and ...
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... necessary . Still it is a fault . The supernatural agents excite an interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly ...
... necessary . Still it is a fault . The supernatural agents excite an interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly ...
Pagina 32
... necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily circumstanced , that at that time its misery was necessary to our happiness , and its slavery to our freedom . These are the parts of the Revolu ...
... necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily circumstanced , that at that time its misery was necessary to our happiness , and its slavery to our freedom . These are the parts of the Revolu ...
Pagina 39
... necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be proportioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the people ; and the ferocity and ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and degradation under which they ...
... necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be proportioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the people ; and the ferocity and ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and degradation under which they ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh ..., Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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