The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. EssaysA. Hart, 1852 - English essays |
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... bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turus them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local ... body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark ...
... bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turus them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local ... body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark ...
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... body . We shall proceed to notice some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from his contempo- raries . And , for that purpose , it is necessary to take a short survey of the parties into which the political world was at that ...
... body . We shall proceed to notice some of the peculiarities which distinguished him from his contempo- raries . And , for that purpose , it is necessary to take a short survey of the parties into which the political world was at that ...
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... body . The Puritans espoused the cause of civil überty , mainly because it was the cause of re- igion . There was another party , by no means Aumerous , but distinguished by learning and ability , which co - operated with them on very ...
... body . The Puritans espoused the cause of civil überty , mainly because it was the cause of re- igion . There was another party , by no means Aumerous , but distinguished by learning and ability , which co - operated with them on very ...
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... body , distinct from the good of the members , and sometimes hardly compatible with it , seems to be the object which he proposes to himself . Of all politi- cal fallacies , this has had the widest and the most mischievous operation ...
... body , distinct from the good of the members , and sometimes hardly compatible with it , seems to be the object which he proposes to himself . Of all politi- cal fallacies , this has had the widest and the most mischievous operation ...
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... body , he would produce Yet the effect of these early performances , something compared with which the High - imperfect as they must necessarily be , is im- lander at the door of the snuff - shop would de- serve admiration . If an ...
... body , he would produce Yet the effect of these early performances , something compared with which the High - imperfect as they must necessarily be , is im- lander at the door of the snuff - shop would de- serve admiration . If an ...
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Page 11 - ... interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through...
Page 242 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 280 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 11 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 11 - ... soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which...
Page 33 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 140 - is a ' good man, — a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the « inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church ' without pulling off his hat, — this shows he has good principles.
Page 122 - That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giantkiller.
Page 11 - Events, which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.