Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 3Harper & Bros., 1880 |
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Page 59
... Pitt , whose influence in the House of Commons and in the country was unbounded , was eager to mark his regard for one whose exploits had contrib- uted so much to the lustre of that memorable period . The great orator had already in ...
... Pitt , whose influence in the House of Commons and in the country was unbounded , was eager to mark his regard for one whose exploits had contrib- uted so much to the lustre of that memorable period . The great orator had already in ...
Page 61
... Pitt ; but finally he connected himself in the closest manner with George Gren- ville . Early in the session of 1764 , when the illegal and im- politic persecution of that worthless demagogue Wilkes had strongly excited the public mind ...
... Pitt ; but finally he connected himself in the closest manner with George Gren- ville . Early in the session of 1764 , when the illegal and im- politic persecution of that worthless demagogue Wilkes had strongly excited the public mind ...
Page 81
... Pitt and the great Whig connection in 1761. No pressing question of domestic or European policy required the attention of public men . There was a short and delusive lull between two tempests . The excitement pro- duced by the Middlesex ...
... Pitt and the great Whig connection in 1761. No pressing question of domestic or European policy required the attention of public men . There was a short and delusive lull between two tempests . The excitement pro- duced by the Middlesex ...
Page 92
... Pitt Press and the Clarendon Press under the direction of syndics and delegates appointed by the universities , and have been illustrated with notes by reverend , very reverend , and right reverend commentators . Every year the most ...
... Pitt Press and the Clarendon Press under the direction of syndics and delegates appointed by the universities , and have been illustrated with notes by reverend , very reverend , and right reverend commentators . Every year the most ...
Page 164
... Pitt and Mr. Dundas in spite of the strenuous opposition of Mr. Burke , we conceive to be , on the whole , the best that was ever devised for the government of a country where no materials can be found for a representative constitution ...
... Pitt and Mr. Dundas in spite of the strenuous opposition of Mr. Burke , we conceive to be , on the whole , the best that was ever devised for the government of a country where no materials can be found for a representative constitution ...
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Page 250 - It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 251 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 38 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
Page 251 - ... beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 453 - Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in all the volumes which he has left us a single taunt which can be called ungenerous or unkind.
Page 149 - O'er my dim eye-balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects, fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks, and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath...
Page 133 - What rugged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we tug that galling load— a wife.
Page 366 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Page 48 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen, who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble. Only five hundred of the vanquished were slain. But their camp, their guns, their baggage, innumerable wagons, innumerable cattle, remained in the power of the conquerors.
Page 131 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...