Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Hurd and Houghton, 1873 |
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... , a complete and correct edition , in handsome library style , of Lord Macaulay's Essays . NEW YORK , May , 1873 . MASON , BAKER , & PRATT . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . THE materials for the biography vi PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.
... , a complete and correct edition , in handsome library style , of Lord Macaulay's Essays . NEW YORK , May , 1873 . MASON , BAKER , & PRATT . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . THE materials for the biography vi PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.
الصفحة xii
... superior to rules , but submis- sive to laws ; praising warmly , but at the same time , judging keenly ; and as intolerant of faults as sensitive to merits . The style , both of the historical xii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... superior to rules , but submis- sive to laws ; praising warmly , but at the same time , judging keenly ; and as intolerant of faults as sensitive to merits . The style , both of the historical xii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
الصفحة xiii
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. to merits . The style , both of the historical and critical articles , is substantially the style of Macaulay's more celebrated essays . There is less energy and freedom of movement , a larger ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. to merits . The style , both of the historical and critical articles , is substantially the style of Macaulay's more celebrated essays . There is less energy and freedom of movement , a larger ...
الصفحة xiv
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. peculiar traits of his character and style , should not have been generally recognized as his , after his sub- sequent articles had familiarized the public with his manner of expression . But the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. peculiar traits of his character and style , should not have been generally recognized as his , after his sub- sequent articles had familiarized the public with his manner of expression . But the ...
الصفحة xvii
... style is that of splendid and animated conversation ; though carefully premeditated they have the appearance of being spontaneous ; and indeed were not , as is commonly supposed , originally written out and committed to memory , but ...
... style is that of splendid and animated conversation ; though carefully premeditated they have the appearance of being spontaneous ; and indeed were not , as is commonly supposed , originally written out and committed to memory , but ...
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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.