Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1920 - 923 pages |
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... judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will talk about the old poets , and comment on them , and to a certain degree enjoy them . But they will scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ...
... judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will talk about the old poets , and comment on them , and to a certain degree enjoy them . But they will scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ...
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... judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly , imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and ...
... judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly , imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and ...
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... judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an instant . But this species of egotism , though fatal to the drama , is the ...
... judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an instant . But this species of egotism , though fatal to the drama , is the ...
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... judge . The public conduct of Milton must be approved or condemned according as the resistance of the people to Charles the First shall appear to be justifi- able or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few ...
... judge . The public conduct of Milton must be approved or condemned according as the resistance of the people to Charles the First shall appear to be justifi- able or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few ...
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... Judge and an eternal reward . And hence he acquired their contempt of external cir- cumstances , their fortitude , their tranquillity , their inflexible resolution . But not the coolest sceptic or the most profane scoffer was more ...
... Judge and an eternal reward . And hence he acquired their contempt of external cir- cumstances , their fortitude , their tranquillity , their inflexible resolution . But not the coolest sceptic or the most profane scoffer was more ...
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