Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1Carey & Hart, 1843 |
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Sivu 13
... merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively occupied with the literary productions , which have given him so brilliant a reputation . He has been hardly less distinguished in public life . He came into Parlia- ment ...
... merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively occupied with the literary productions , which have given him so brilliant a reputation . He has been hardly less distinguished in public life . He came into Parlia- ment ...
Sivu 18
... merit of really elucidating the text . The preface is evidently the work of a sensible and candid man , firm in his own religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton ...
... merit of really elucidating the text . The preface is evidently the work of a sensible and candid man , firm in his own religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton ...
Sivu 25
... merit of the most remark- able passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the ...
... merit of the most remark- able passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the ...
Sivu 26
... merit lies less in its obvious mean- ing than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment ; no sooner are they pronounced than the past is ...
... merit lies less in its obvious mean- ing than in its occult power . There would seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment ; no sooner are they pronounced than the past is ...
Sivu 27
... merit , offer some marked points of resemblance . They are both Lyric poems in the form of Plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar , as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to ...
... merit , offer some marked points of resemblance . They are both Lyric poems in the form of Plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar , as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to ...
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Sivu 385 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Sivu 385 - Coligni's hoary hair all dabbled with his blood; And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Sivu 58 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action 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.
Sivu 332 - We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Sivu 41 - The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forests, which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thousand years, and which, from one end of Europe to the other, have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees of the oppressors with an unwonted fear.
Sivu 47 - ... is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning...
Sivu 386 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Sivu 385 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Sivu 384 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Sivu 36 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.