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... diction of Brougham ; as brilliant and as acute in critical dissection as Hazlitt , without his unsoundness of mind ; at times evincing a critical judgment which would not disgrace the stern gravity of Hal- lam , and a range of thought ...
... diction of Brougham ; as brilliant and as acute in critical dissection as Hazlitt , without his unsoundness of mind ; at times evincing a critical judgment which would not disgrace the stern gravity of Hal- lam , and a range of thought ...
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... diction , must be either a Yahoo or a beatified intelligence . Some of the causes of this wide and general popularity may be discerned in a very superficial survey of Macaulay's writings . The brilliancy which is diffused through them ...
... diction , must be either a Yahoo or a beatified intelligence . Some of the causes of this wide and general popularity may be discerned in a very superficial survey of Macaulay's writings . The brilliancy which is diffused through them ...
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... diction , aptness of illustration , splendor of imagery and epigrammatic point and glare , a careful eye can easily discern the movement of a powerful and cultivated intellect , as it successively appears in the well - trained logi ...
... diction , aptness of illustration , splendor of imagery and epigrammatic point and glare , a careful eye can easily discern the movement of a powerful and cultivated intellect , as it successively appears in the well - trained logi ...
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... diction , " does not blind Macaulay to the fact , that the great orator's whole life " was under the dominion of a girlish vanity and a craven fear . ” His res- pect for Frederick's military character extends not to his rhymes , but he ...
... diction , " does not blind Macaulay to the fact , that the great orator's whole life " was under the dominion of a girlish vanity and a craven fear . ” His res- pect for Frederick's military character extends not to his rhymes , but he ...
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... diction , which make his historical essays the most fascinating of compositions . Yet , with all his fondness for speculative truth , with all his deep sense and detestation of injustice and corruption , with all his fine perception of ...
... diction , which make his historical essays the most fascinating of compositions . Yet , with all his fondness for speculative truth , with all his deep sense and detestation of injustice and corruption , with all his fine perception of ...
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Сторінка 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Сторінка 249 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Сторінка 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Сторінка 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Сторінка 240 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Сторінка 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Сторінка 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Сторінка 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Сторінка 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Сторінка 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.