Critical Historical and Miscellaneous Essays with a Memoir and Index, المجلدات 1-2Mason, Baker & Pratt, 1873 |
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الصفحة ix
... his second success as a prize poet , we find him comparing prize poems to prize sheep . " The object , " he says , " of the competitor for the agricultural premium is to produce an animal fit , BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . 1X.
... his second success as a prize poet , we find him comparing prize poems to prize sheep . " The object , " he says , " of the competitor for the agricultural premium is to produce an animal fit , BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . 1X.
الصفحة x
... object of the poetical candidate is to produce , not a good poem , but a poem of the exact degree of frigidity and bombast which may appear to his censors to be correct or sub- lime . In general prize sheep are good for nothing but to ...
... object of the poetical candidate is to produce , not a good poem , but a poem of the exact degree of frigidity and bombast which may appear to his censors to be correct or sub- lime . In general prize sheep are good for nothing but to ...
الصفحة xx
... objects of his ambition . Apart from such considerations as these , there was something in the terms of his appointment eminently calculated to induce him to accept it . The special object of his mission was to prepare a new code of ...
... objects of his ambition . Apart from such considerations as these , there was something in the terms of his appointment eminently calculated to induce him to accept it . The special object of his mission was to prepare a new code of ...
الصفحة xxii
... object to me , for my income , though small , is sufficient for a man who has no osten- tatious tastes . " In regard to the expenses of the elec tion , he makes one condition which may surprise those American readers , who suppose that ...
... object to me , for my income , though small , is sufficient for a man who has no osten- tatious tastes . " In regard to the expenses of the elec tion , he makes one condition which may surprise those American readers , who suppose that ...
الصفحة 8
... object than to perpetuate their own exclusive power , and to keep us under the yoke of an oligarchical tyranny , which unites in itself the worst evils of every other system , and combines more than Athenian turbulence with more than ...
... object than to perpetuate their own exclusive power , and to keep us under the yoke of an oligarchical tyranny , which unites in itself the worst evils of every other system , and combines more than Athenian turbulence with more than ...
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