The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 6Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... learning which appeared in the " Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors ; " and it is curious to see how impatiently Walpole bore the imputation of having attended to any thing so unfashionable as the improvement of his mind . " I know ...
... learning which appeared in the " Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors ; " and it is curious to see how impatiently Walpole bore the imputation of having attended to any thing so unfashionable as the improvement of his mind . " I know ...
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... learning . But from those faults Walpole was not one jot more free than the garreteers from whose contact he shrank . Of literary meannesses and literary vices , his life and his works contain as many instances as the life and the works ...
... learning . But from those faults Walpole was not one jot more free than the garreteers from whose contact he shrank . Of literary meannesses and literary vices , his life and his works contain as many instances as the life and the works ...
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... learning he aban- dons to others , and sets out an entertainment worthy of a Roman epicure , an entertainment consisting of nothing but delicacies , the brains of singing birds , the roe of mullets , the sunny halves of peaches . This ...
... learning he aban- dons to others , and sets out an entertainment worthy of a Roman epicure , an entertainment consisting of nothing but delicacies , the brains of singing birds , the roe of mullets , the sunny halves of peaches . This ...
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... learning . He was familiar with the ancient writers , and loved to sit up till midnight discuss- ing philological and metrical questions with Bentley . His knowledge of modern languages was prodigious . The privy council , when he was ...
... learning . He was familiar with the ancient writers , and loved to sit up till midnight discuss- ing philological and metrical questions with Bentley . His knowledge of modern languages was prodigious . The privy council , when he was ...
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... learning , Carteret was far from being a pedant . His was not one of those cold spirits of which the fire is put out by the fuel . In council , in debate , in society , he was all life and energy . His measures were strong , prompt ...
... learning , Carteret was far from being a pedant . His was not one of those cold spirits of which the fire is put out by the fuel . In council , in debate , in society , he was all life and energy . His measures were strong , prompt ...
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Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 316 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 629 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 190 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Page 518 - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Page 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 631 - ... negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham.
Page 396 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 518 - O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute what these lines express: You merit more; nor could my love do less.
Page 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.