Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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الصفحة xxxii
... doubt , either in his statement or argument . Of all great English writers he is there- fore the least suggestive . All that he demands of a reader is simple receptiveness . Selection , arrange- ment , xxxii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY ...
... doubt , either in his statement or argument . Of all great English writers he is there- fore the least suggestive . All that he demands of a reader is simple receptiveness . Selection , arrange- ment , xxxii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... doubt in many instances where Macaulay is most certain . The most perfect exhibi- tion of Macaulay's talent is his analysis and represen- tation of the character of James II . , from a hostile point of view . He catches his victim in a ...
... doubt in many instances where Macaulay is most certain . The most perfect exhibi- tion of Macaulay's talent is his analysis and represen- tation of the character of James II . , from a hostile point of view . He catches his victim in a ...
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... . Think of that , Ligarius . By Venus , she almost made me adore her , by telling me that I talked Greek with the most Attic accent that she had heard in Italy . " " I doubt she will not say the same of FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 5.
... . Think of that , Ligarius . By Venus , she almost made me adore her , by telling me that I talked Greek with the most Attic accent that she had heard in Italy . " " I doubt she will not say the same of FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 5.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. " I doubt she will not say the same of me , " replied Ligarius . " I am just as able to decipher an obelisk as to read a line of Homer . " " You barbarous Scythian , who had the care of your ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. " I doubt she will not say the same of me , " replied Ligarius . " I am just as able to decipher an obelisk as to read a line of Homer . " " You barbarous Scythian , who had the care of your ...
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... doubt . Pity that such talents should be coupled with such cowardice and coxcombry . He is the finest speaker living , -infinite- ly superior to what Hortensius was , in his best days ; -a charming companion , except when he tells over ...
... doubt . Pity that such talents should be coupled with such cowardice and coxcombry . He is the finest speaker living , -infinite- ly superior to what Hortensius was , in his best days ; -a charming companion , except when he tells over ...
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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.