The Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayHarper & brothers, 1875 |
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... with me is directly the reverse . have a strong and acute enjoyment of works of the imagina- tion , but I have never habituated myself to dissect them . Per- haps I enjoy them the more keenly for that very reason . Such books as ...
... with me is directly the reverse . have a strong and acute enjoyment of works of the imagina- tion , but I have never habituated myself to dissect them . Per- haps I enjoy them the more keenly for that very reason . Such books as ...
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... with which he regarded the scenes around him . He viewed the works , both of man and of nature , with the eyes of an historian , and not of an artist . The leading features of a tract of country impressed themselves rapidly and ...
... with which he regarded the scenes around him . He viewed the works , both of man and of nature , with the eyes of an historian , and not of an artist . The leading features of a tract of country impressed themselves rapidly and ...
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... with berries , along the road for miles . I looked at them with the same sort of feeling with which Washington Irving says that he heard the nightingale for the first time when he came to En- gland , after having read descriptions of ...
... with berries , along the road for miles . I looked at them with the same sort of feeling with which Washington Irving says that he heard the nightingale for the first time when he came to En- gland , after having read descriptions of ...
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... with the spirit of any great work than mine is with that of the ' Divine Comedy . ' His execution I take to be far beyond that of any oth- er artist who has operated on the imagination by means of words . O degli altri poeti onore e ...
... with the spirit of any great work than mine is with that of the ' Divine Comedy . ' His execution I take to be far beyond that of any oth- er artist who has operated on the imagination by means of words . O degli altri poeti onore e ...
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... with the air of a man of rank , but not of fashion ; such a per- sonage as Mrs. Inchbald's Catholic lord in the ' Simple Story , ' or as Sir Walter's Lord Glenallan without the remorse . But Lord Clifford is all quicksilver . He talked ...
... with the air of a man of rank , but not of fashion ; such a per- sonage as Mrs. Inchbald's Catholic lord in the ' Simple Story , ' or as Sir Walter's Lord Glenallan without the remorse . But Lord Clifford is all quicksilver . He talked ...
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Página 410 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Página 326 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Página 245 - Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With my lost Arthur's loved remains. Spread thy full wings, and waft him o'er. So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror'd mast, and lead Thro' prosperous floods his holy urn. All night no ruder air perplex Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright As our pure love, thro' early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
Página 408 - Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal.
Página 32 - Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace." Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see ; Nought spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus nought spake he ; But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome : "O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms Take thou in charge this day!
Página 395 - ... was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century— and there, if every other leaf were powerless,...
Página 334 - ... let me not live After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain: whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies Expire before their fashions.
Página 393 - Italian country house from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century...
Página 135 - Another consists of meditations on the Psalms, which will doubtless greatly console and edify the church. This makes the character complete. Whatsoever things are false, whatsoever things are dishonest, whatsoever things are unjust, whatsoever things are impure, whatsoever things are hateful, whatsoever things are of evil report, if there be any vice, and if there be any infamy, all these things, we knew, were blended in Barere.