Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page xxiv
... he alluded to this last circumstance as unprecedented in political warfare . To hiss a defeated candidate , he reminded them , was below the ordinary magnanimity of the most factious mob . xxiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... he alluded to this last circumstance as unprecedented in political warfare . To hiss a defeated candidate , he reminded them , was below the ordinary magnanimity of the most factious mob . xxiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
Page xxv
... circumstances of his defeat . " I shall always be proud , " he writes , " to think that I once enjoyed your favor , but permit me to say I shall remember , not less proudly , how I risked and how I lost it . " The follow- ing noble poem ...
... circumstances of his defeat . " I shall always be proud , " he writes , " to think that I once enjoyed your favor , but permit me to say I shall remember , not less proudly , how I risked and how I lost it . " The follow- ing noble poem ...
Page xxxi
... circumstances as Judge Jeffreys himself . He seemed to consider that the glory of the judge rested on the number of the executions ; and he has hanged , drawn , and quartered many individuals , whose cases are now at the bar of public ...
... circumstances as Judge Jeffreys himself . He seemed to consider that the glory of the judge rested on the number of the executions ; and he has hanged , drawn , and quartered many individuals , whose cases are now at the bar of public ...
Page 55
... circumstances , and in the hands of the greatest masters , had still been poor , feeble , and singu- larly unpoetical , and which had , in the age of Dante , been debased by the admixture of innumerable barbar- ous words and idioms ...
... circumstances , and in the hands of the greatest masters , had still been poor , feeble , and singu- larly unpoetical , and which had , in the age of Dante , been debased by the admixture of innumerable barbar- ous words and idioms ...
Page 57
... should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . 1 Tassoni ; Secchia Rapita , canto i . stanza 6 . " " But these circumstances , while they foster genius , are CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 57.
... should have had Lear if Shakspeare had been able to read Sophocles . 1 Tassoni ; Secchia Rapita , canto i . stanza 6 . " " But these circumstances , while they foster genius , are CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS . 57.
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