Macaulay's Essay on MiltonMacmillan, 1909 - 179 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... seem ' needless excursions or trivial details , ' and that in not a few cases even the enforced study of detail helps to develop an appreciation of masterpieces . In his annotations to Johnson's Lives Mr. Matthew Arnold has exemplified ...
... seem ' needless excursions or trivial details , ' and that in not a few cases even the enforced study of detail helps to develop an appreciation of masterpieces . In his annotations to Johnson's Lives Mr. Matthew Arnold has exemplified ...
Pàgina xviii
... seem to recognize in this fragment the presence of powers as yet crude and undeveloped- which are intrinsically of so much higher value than those of the critic or the historian that even their un- successful exercise would have been ...
... seem to recognize in this fragment the presence of powers as yet crude and undeveloped- which are intrinsically of so much higher value than those of the critic or the historian that even their un- successful exercise would have been ...
Pàgina xxii
... seems , moreover , all the more uncalled for when we remember the criticisms passed by Macaulay on himself at a later period of his life . In 1838 , writing to Napier , an editor of the Edin- burgh Review , he says : You will believe ...
... seems , moreover , all the more uncalled for when we remember the criticisms passed by Macaulay on himself at a later period of his life . In 1838 , writing to Napier , an editor of the Edin- burgh Review , he says : You will believe ...
Pàgina 2
... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears 30 the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears 30 the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
Pàgina 8
... 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 improve- ments . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
... 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 improve- ments . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
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Pàgina 72 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Pàgina 130 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Pàgina 47 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pàgina 46 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings 30 and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Pàgina 104 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
Pàgina 48 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Pàgina 38 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Pàgina 53 - ... all his public conduct was directed. For this he joined the Presbyterians; for this he forsook them. He fought their perilous battle; but he turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph. He saw that they, like those whom they had vanquished, were hostile to the liberty of thought. He therefore joined the Independents, and called upon Cromwell to break the secular chain, and to save free conscience from the paw of the Presbyterian wolf.
Pàgina 47 - ... the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed.
Pàgina 150 - Or th' unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.