Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, 3권Harper & Bros., 1880 |
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Addison admiration appeared army Barère Barère's became Benares Bengal Burke Bute Calcutta called character chief Clive Company Congreve Country Wife court crimes death Duke Dupleix eloquence enemies England English Europe fame favor feeling force fortune France Frances Burney Frederic French friends genius George George Grenville Girondists Governor-general Grenville hand Hastings head Hippolyte Carnot honor House of Bourbon House of Commons hundred India Jacobin justice King letters literary lived Lord Lord Holland Lord Rockingham means Meer Jaffier ment military mind ministers Miss Burney morality Nabob nation native nature never Nuncomar Omichund opinion Parliament party passed person Pitt poet political Pope prince Prussia Queen Robespierre royal scarcely seemed sent Silesia soldiers soon spirit strong talents thought thousand pounds tion took Tories troops truth verses victory Voltaire vote Whig whole write Wycherley
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250 페이지 - It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
251 페이지 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
38 페이지 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
251 페이지 - ... beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
453 페이지 - Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in all the volumes which he has left us a single taunt which can be called ungenerous or unkind.
149 페이지 - O'er my dim eye-balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects, fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks, and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath...
133 페이지 - What rugged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we tug that galling load— a wife.
366 페이지 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
48 페이지 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen, who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble. Only five hundred of the vanquished were slain. But their camp, their guns, their baggage, innumerable wagons, innumerable cattle, remained in the power of the conquerors.
131 페이지 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...