Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Bände 1-2A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1897 |
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... despotism ? " " Good Gods ! Cæsar . It is not safe for you to speak , or for us to listen to , such things , at such a crisis . " 66 Judge for yourselves what you will hear . I will judge for myself what I will speak . I was not twenty ...
... despotism ? " " Good Gods ! Cæsar . It is not safe for you to speak , or for us to listen to , such things , at such a crisis . " 66 Judge for yourselves what you will hear . I will judge for myself what I will speak . I was not twenty ...
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... despotism , which some of the revolutionary leaders would erect upon its ruins . We have not dethroned Aristotle and Bossu for this . ― - These sonnet - fanciers would do well to reflect that , though the style of Petrarch may not suit ...
... despotism , which some of the revolutionary leaders would erect upon its ruins . We have not dethroned Aristotle and Bossu for this . ― - These sonnet - fanciers would do well to reflect that , though the style of Petrarch may not suit ...
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... despotism and anarchy , I prefer despotism . " " Many men , " said Mr. Milton , " have floridly and ingeniously compared anarchy and despotism ; but they who so amuse themselves do but look at separate parts of that which is truly one ...
... despotism and anarchy , I prefer despotism . " " Many men , " said Mr. Milton , " have floridly and ingeniously compared anarchy and despotism ; but they who so amuse themselves do but look at separate parts of that which is truly one ...
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... his own province . Just as re many of his remarks , beautiful as are many of his · llustrations , we can perpetually detect in his thoughts that flavour which the soil of despotism generally com- municates ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS . 141.
... his own province . Just as re many of his remarks , beautiful as are many of his · llustrations , we can perpetually detect in his thoughts that flavour which the soil of despotism generally com- municates ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS . 141.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. that flavour which the soil of despotism generally com- municates to all the fruits of genius . Eloquence was , in his time , little more than a condiment which served to stimulate in a despot ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. that flavour which the soil of despotism generally com- municates to all the fruits of genius . Eloquence was , in his time , little more than a condiment which served to stimulate in a despot ...
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Seite 429 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose, started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Seite 250 - 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. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Seite 418 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Seite 330 - 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.
Seite 213 - By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.
Seite 372 - Lara-like peer. The number of hopeful undergraduates and medical students who became things of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system...
Seite 259 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Seite 256 - The government had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every high place, worship was paid to Charles and James, Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race accursed of God and man was a second time driven...
Seite 217 - The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations by Deans of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys, as by other ideas which are connected with them.
Seite 259 - ... every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.