Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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... nature . It was on a bare rock , surrounded by deep sea , that the streets of Tyre were piled up to a dizzy height . On that sterile crag were woven the robes of Persian satraps and Sicilian tyrants : there were fashioned silver bowls ...
... nature . It was on a bare rock , surrounded by deep sea , that the streets of Tyre were piled up to a dizzy height . On that sterile crag were woven the robes of Persian satraps and Sicilian tyrants : there were fashioned silver bowls ...
Page 535
... nature can be exhibited by means of words alone . Thus the objects of the imitation of poetry are the whole external and the whole internal universe , the face of nature , the vicissitudes of fortune , man as he is in himself , man as ...
... nature can be exhibited by means of words alone . Thus the objects of the imitation of poetry are the whole external and the whole internal universe , the face of nature , the vicissitudes of fortune , man as he is in himself , man as ...
Page 581
... nature of heat to the treatment of fever , and astronomers proved syllogistically that the planets could have no independent motion , -because the heavens were incorruptible , and nature ab- horred a vacuum ! The reason , too , which Mr ...
... nature of heat to the treatment of fever , and astronomers proved syllogistically that the planets could have no independent motion , -because the heavens were incorruptible , and nature ab- horred a vacuum ! The reason , too , which Mr ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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