Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 |
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... writer . He does not paint recollections of childhood , the school- a finished picture , or play for a mere room , the dog - eared Virgil , the holi- passive listener . He sketches , and day , and the prize . A fourth brings leaves ...
... writer . He does not paint recollections of childhood , the school- a finished picture , or play for a mere room , the dog - eared Virgil , the holi- passive listener . He sketches , and day , and the prize . A fourth brings leaves ...
Pagina 8
... writer , and break the illusion piece , to the severe dignity of the style , of the reader . The finest passages are the graceful and pathetic solemnity of those which are lyric in form as well as the opening speech , or the wild and in ...
... writer , and break the illusion piece , to the severe dignity of the style , of the reader . The finest passages are the graceful and pathetic solemnity of those which are lyric in form as well as the opening speech , or the wild and in ...
Pagina 9
... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the ... writers . Each in his own department is incomparable ; and each , we may remark , has wisely , or fortunately , taken a ...
... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the ... writers . Each in his own department is incomparable ; and each , we may remark , has wisely , or fortunately , taken a ...
Pagina 11
... writer would have found imprac- ticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicat- ing his meaning circuitously through a long succession of associated ideas , and of intimating more than he expressed ...
... writer would have found imprac- ticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicat- ing his meaning circuitously through a long succession of associated ideas , and of intimating more than he expressed ...
Pagina 12
... writers . His fiends , which he possesses that he holds the in particular , are wonderful creations . fate of his torturer in his hands , and They are not metaphysical abstrac- that the hour of his release will surely tions . They are ...
... writers . His fiends , which he possesses that he holds the in particular , are wonderful creations . fate of his torturer in his hands , and They are not metaphysical abstrac- that the hour of his release will surely tions . They are ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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