Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - 898 pages |
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... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
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... moral rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of schylus seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and grace- qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing ...
... moral rugged , barbaric , and colossal . The legends of schylus seem to harmonize less with the fragrant groves and grace- qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing ...
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... most lovely and delightful in the physical and in the moral world . Nei- ther Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the plea- santness of external objects , or loved directly egotistical . MILTON . 13.
... most lovely and delightful in the physical and in the moral world . Nei- ther Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the plea- santness of external objects , or loved directly egotistical . MILTON . 13.
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... moral character of a nation . We de- plore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be ...
... moral character of a nation . We de- plore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be ...
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... moral and in- tellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the press and the unfettered exercise of private judgment . These were the objects which Milton justly conceived to be the most important . He ...
... moral and in- tellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the press and the unfettered exercise of private judgment . These were the objects which Milton justly conceived to be the most important . He ...
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Page 24 - ... the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.
Page 183 - suggested that luxury corrupts a people, and destroys the spirit of liberty. JOHNSON : Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?" SIR ADAM: " But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so...
Page 139 - We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ;...
Page 639 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst...
Page 23 - Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed 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.
Page 354 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Page 121 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do...
Page 134 - That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giant-killer.
Page 410 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 135 - Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge. All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and hobgoblins, ill-favoured ones, and shining ones, the tall, comely, swarthy Madam Bubble, with her great purse by her side, and her fingers playing with the money, the black man in the bright vesture, Mr. Worldly Wiseman and my Lord Hategood, Mr. Talkative, and...