Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewTauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 14
... contempt . From the narrative of Herodotus it should seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be ...
... contempt . From the narrative of Herodotus it should seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be ...
Page 27
... contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate in ambition and in love . He ...
... contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy . Milton was , like Dante , a statesman and a lover ; and , like Dante , he had been unfortunate in ambition and in love . He ...
Page 49
... contempt for terrestrial distinctions . The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish , when com- pared with the boundless interval which separated the whole Macaulay , Essays . 1 . race from Him on ...
... contempt for terrestrial distinctions . The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish , when com- pared with the boundless interval which separated the whole Macaulay , Essays . 1 . race from Him on ...
Page 50
... contempt : for they esteemed them- selves rich in a more precious treasure , and eloquent in a more sublime language , nobles by the right of an earlier creation , and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand . The very meanest of ...
... contempt : for they esteemed them- selves rich in a more precious treasure , and eloquent in a more sublime language , nobles by the right of an earlier creation , and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand . The very meanest of ...
Page 54
... contempt of external circumstances , their fortitude , their tranquillity , their inflexible resolution . But not the coolest sceptic or the most profane scoffer was more perfectly free from the contagion of their frantic delusions ...
... contempt of external circumstances , their fortitude , their tranquillity , their inflexible resolution . But not the coolest sceptic or the most profane scoffer was more perfectly free from the contagion of their frantic delusions ...
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