Lord Macaulay's Essays: And Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, 1889 - 923 pages |
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... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a cer- tain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called ...
... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a cer- tain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called ...
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... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
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... manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the school - room , the dog ... manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso . It is impossible to conceive that the ...
... manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the school - room , the dog ... manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso . It is impossible to conceive that the ...
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... manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it ...
... manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it ...
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... manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvas and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about ...
... manner as to present a picture to the mental eye . And if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvas and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about ...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Classic Reprint) Thomas Babbington Macaulay No preview available - 2017 |
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