Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner , not for the ...
... taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner , not for the ...
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... tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a Cavalier . In his 68 MACAULAY'S ...
... tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a Cavalier . In his 68 MACAULAY'S ...
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... tastes and his associations were such as harmonize best with monarchy and aristocracy . He was under the influence of all the feelings by which the gallant Cavaliers were mis- led . But of those feelings he was the master and not the ...
... tastes and his associations were such as harmonize best with monarchy and aristocracy . He was under the influence of all the feelings by which the gallant Cavaliers were mis- led . But of those feelings he was the master and not the ...
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... tastes and feelings he sacrificed , in order to do what he con sidered his duty to mankind . It is the very struggle of the noble Othello . His heart relents ; but his hand is firm . He does nought in hate , but all in honor . He kisses ...
... tastes and feelings he sacrificed , in order to do what he con sidered his duty to mankind . It is the very struggle of the noble Othello . His heart relents ; but his hand is firm . He does nought in hate , but all in honor . He kisses ...
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... taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . - This is strange · and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his ...
... taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . - This is strange · and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his ...
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Стр. 56 - 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.
Стр. 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Стр. 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Стр. 31 - 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...
Стр. 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Стр. 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Стр. 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Стр. 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
Стр. 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Стр. 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.