Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Volumen1Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... measure which they consider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
... measure which they consider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from errors of the ...
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... measure and a sober dignity which he did not always preserve in later years and which remind us of his admirable contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica . The " Conversation " and other pleasant trifles passed , however , with some ...
... measure and a sober dignity which he did not always preserve in later years and which remind us of his admirable contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica . The " Conversation " and other pleasant trifles passed , however , with some ...
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... measure upon Macaulay . His fellowship , tenable by a layman for seven years only , was running out and his office of Commissioner in Bankruptcy had been sup- pressed by a recent reform . Even when his parliamentary fame was at the ...
... measure upon Macaulay . His fellowship , tenable by a layman for seven years only , was running out and his office of Commissioner in Bankruptcy had been sup- pressed by a recent reform . Even when his parliamentary fame was at the ...
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... measure and discrimination . " A reader , " Arnold observes , " who only wants rhetoric , a reader who wants a panegyric on Milton , a panegyric on the Puritans , will find what he wants . A reader who wants criticism will be ...
... measure and discrimination . " A reader , " Arnold observes , " who only wants rhetoric , a reader who wants a panegyric on Milton , a panegyric on the Puritans , will find what he wants . A reader who wants criticism will be ...
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... measure Milton's wonderful power of assimilation . His remarks upon the early poems and the sonnets contain much that is true and happily expressed . Perhaps the best critical remarks in the essay are those upon the singular suggestive ...
... measure Milton's wonderful power of assimilation . His remarks upon the early poems and the sonnets contain much that is true and happily expressed . Perhaps the best critical remarks in the essay are those upon the singular suggestive ...
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Página 301 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 23 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Página 286 - 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.
Página 52 - 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. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 350 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 23 - 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 270 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 45 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 319 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 352 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.