Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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Sivu 35
... canvas and a box of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude MILTON . 35.
... canvas and a box of colors are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude MILTON . 35.
Sivu 36
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to ...
Sivu 37
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insig- nificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer , that no poet , who should ...
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insig- nificant name , than for the most important principle . From these considerations , we infer , that no poet , who should ...
Sivu 44
... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the ...
... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind ; at the very crisis of the ...
Sivu 68
... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and ro- mantic honor , the prejudices of childhood , and the ven- erable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and ro- mantic honor , the prejudices of childhood , and the ven- erable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Sivu 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Sivu 455 - 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 then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Sivu 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Sivu 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...