Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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... death . An Appendix contains several essays attributed to Lord Macaulay , and unquestionably his , not found in any other edition of his miscellaneous writings . In this edition the Essays have been arranged in chronological order , so ...
... death . An Appendix contains several essays attributed to Lord Macaulay , and unquestionably his , not found in any other edition of his miscellaneous writings . In this edition the Essays have been arranged in chronological order , so ...
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... death , contains , perhaps , the most authentic record of his feelings on the occasion : LINES WRITTEN IN AUGUST , 1847 . THE day of tumult , strife , defeat , was o'er ; Worn out with toil and noise and scorn and spleen , I slumbered ...
... death , contains , perhaps , the most authentic record of his feelings on the occasion : LINES WRITTEN IN AUGUST , 1847 . THE day of tumult , strife , defeat , was o'er ; Worn out with toil and noise and scorn and spleen , I slumbered ...
الصفحة xxvii
... - hills shall reflect the blinding glare ; Thine , when , through forests breathing death , thy way All night shall wind by many a tiger's lair ; " Thine most , when friends turn pale , when BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxvii.
... - hills shall reflect the blinding glare ; Thine , when , through forests breathing death , thy way All night shall wind by many a tiger's lair ; " Thine most , when friends turn pale , when BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxvii.
الصفحة xxix
... death , by disease of the heart , on the 28th of December , 1859. It was felt , even by those who most vehemently disagreed with him in opinion , that in losing him England lost the man who , beyond all other men , carried in his brain ...
... death , by disease of the heart , on the 28th of December , 1859. It was felt , even by those who most vehemently disagreed with him in opinion , that in losing him England lost the man who , beyond all other men , carried in his brain ...
الصفحة xxx
... death it has become generally known that he was by no means deficient in those tender and benevolent feelings which found little expression in his works . Among his intimate friends and relations he passed as one of the most ...
... death it has become generally known that he was by no means deficient in those tender and benevolent feelings which found little expression in his works . Among his intimate friends and relations he passed as one of the most ...
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الصفحة 430 - 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.
الصفحة 390 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
الصفحة 267 - There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
الصفحة 322 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
الصفحة 332 - 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.
الصفحة 324 - We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.
الصفحة 256 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
الصفحة 413 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure...
الصفحة 266 - Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faithful. May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
الصفحة 251 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.