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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 26
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 850 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...the life or the writings of the Great Poet and Patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our...so sternly kept with his country and with his fame. DANTE.* The limits of a lale Number f precluded us from entering, as fully as we would have wished,...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 5

Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, — not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our...sternly kept with his country and with his fame." On the return of Charles, Milton wisely withdrew for a time from public observation. Whether or not...
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The Young men's magazine, Volumes 1-2

British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our...laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, — not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our...laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which be endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers,...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured...with his country and with his fame. MACHIAVELLI.* [Edinburgh Review, 1827.] THOSE who have attended to the practice of our literary tribunal are well...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured...so sternly kept with his country and with his fame. MACHIAVELLL* [Edinburgh Review, 1827.] THOSE who have attended to the practice of our literary tribunal...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pages
...the life or the writings of the great Poet and Patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his. genius has enriched...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptation and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which...
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Payne's universum, or pictorial world: engravings of ..., Issue 107, Volume 3

Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...study the life and writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our...so sternly kept with his country and with his fame. MACAO. MACAO is situated at the southern extremity of the island of Heangshan. It is about two miles...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptation and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots...so sternly kept with his country and with his fame. THE WINDS. From Fruer'i Maguine. THE winds ore hurrying by me with a tone, That tells of sorrows past,...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptation and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots...kept with his country and with his fame. MACHIAVELLI. This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we say that, in the Mandragola,...
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