Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... to create new worlds and to people them with new races of beings . He is to Homer and Shakspeare , to Dante and Milton , what Nollekens was to Canova , or Lawrence to Michael Angelo . The object 33 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS . 20.
... to create new worlds and to people them with new races of beings . He is to Homer and Shakspeare , to Dante and Milton , what Nollekens was to Canova , or Lawrence to Michael Angelo . The object 33 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS . 20.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Canova , or Lawrence to Michael Angelo . The object of the historian's imagination is not within him ; it is furnished from without . It is not a vision of beauty and grandeur discernable only by ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Canova , or Lawrence to Michael Angelo . The object of the historian's imagination is not within him ; it is furnished from without . It is not a vision of beauty and grandeur discernable only by ...
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... objects of a new idolatry , with the nakedness of those walls on which the Transfiguration had shone with light as glorious as that which overhung Mount Tabor . They came back to a land in which they could recognise nothing . The seven ...
... objects of a new idolatry , with the nakedness of those walls on which the Transfiguration had shone with light as glorious as that which overhung Mount Tabor . They came back to a land in which they could recognise nothing . The seven ...
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... object which reminded him that he was a stranger in the place of his fathers . He returned to a country in which even the passing traveller is every moment reminded that there has lately been a great dissolution and reconstruction of ...
... object which reminded him that he was a stranger in the place of his fathers . He returned to a country in which even the passing traveller is every moment reminded that there has lately been a great dissolution and reconstruction of ...
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... object was to free millions of his countrymen from penal laws and disabilities which hardly any person now considers as just . He ought , therefore , to be regarded as blameless , or , at worst , as guilty only of employing irre- gular ...
... object was to free millions of his countrymen from penal laws and disabilities which hardly any person now considers as just . He ought , therefore , to be regarded as blameless , or , at worst , as guilty only of employing irre- gular ...
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