Macaulay's Essays on Addison and MiltonGinn, 1898 - 212 páginas |
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Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Visualização completa - 1898 |
Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Visualização completa - 1898 |
Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Visualização completa - 1898 |
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Addi Addison admire Æneid Æschylus appeared army became Boileau called Cato Chancellor character Charles Church classical coffee-houses Dante death distinguished Drury Lane Dryden Edinburgh Review England English Epistles essay Euripides feelings France French friends genius Godolphin Greek Halifax Heroic couplet honor House of Commons Iliad Ireland James Johnson King Lancelot Addison Latin verses learning letter liberty literary literature little Dicky London Long Parliament Lord Macaulay Macaulay's Magdalen College Marlborough means Milton mind minister Montagu never Newdigate prize noble opinion Oxford Paradise Lost Parliament party passage person poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's popular praise published Queen reader remarkable ridicule says scholar seems Somers Spectator spirit Steele Steele's strange style Sunderland Swift taste Tatler Theater thought throne Tickell tion toparch Tories Vincent Bourne virtue Voltaire Vortigern William words write written
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Página 113 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Página 29 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 105 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 3 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 36 - The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff posture, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed fair game for the laughers.
Página 54 - Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed ; and much they may if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Página 46 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with •which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.
Página 39 - Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested, by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 38 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 28 - ... faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun.