Macaulay's Essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'ArblayScott, Foresman, 1913 - 262페이지 |
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... genius . It would be easy to point out much greater defects than any yet mentioned , defects that go deeper than style . One or two indeed we are obliged to mention . There is the strain of coarseness often to be noted in his writing ...
... genius . It would be easy to point out much greater defects than any yet mentioned , defects that go deeper than style . One or two indeed we are obliged to mention . There is the strain of coarseness often to be noted in his writing ...
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... genius . Macaulay's essays were meant to inform . Characters and situations are delineated in them , but not created . History and criticism are often not literature at all . They become literature only by revealing an imagi- native ...
... genius . Macaulay's essays were meant to inform . Characters and situations are delineated in them , but not created . History and criticism are often not literature at all . They become literature only by revealing an imagi- native ...
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... genius triumphed . Pit , boxes , and galleries , were in a constant roar of laughter . If any bigoted 15 admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan , he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn him out , " or ...
... genius triumphed . Pit , boxes , and galleries , were in a constant roar of laughter . If any bigoted 15 admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan , he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn him out , " or ...
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... genius ; but when he talked he talked nonsense , and made himself the laughing - stock of his hearers . He was painfully sensible of his inferiority in con- versation ; he felt every failure keenly ; yet he had not 10 sufficient ...
... genius ; but when he talked he talked nonsense , and made himself the laughing - stock of his hearers . He was painfully sensible of his inferiority in con- versation ; he felt every failure keenly ; yet he had not 10 sufficient ...
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... genius , cruelly treated by the world , and doomed to struggle with difficulties which at last broke his heart . But no representation can be more remote from the truth . He did , indeed , go through much sharp misery before he had done ...
... genius , cruelly treated by the world , and doomed to struggle with difficulties which at last broke his heart . But no representation can be more remote from the truth . He did , indeed , go through much sharp misery before he had done ...
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238 페이지 - Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues...
221 페이지 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
83 페이지 - On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men. fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of...
161 페이지 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
235 페이지 - OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH— A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn...
227 페이지 - ... adhere. I am but too certain they will now listen to no other. I dread, therefore, to make a trial where I despair of success. I know not how to risk a prayer with those who may silence me by a command.
228 페이지 - Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is extremely clever. Her understanding, indeed, may be called masculine; but unfortunately her manners deserve the same epithet; for, in studying to acquire the knowledge of the other sex, she has lost all the softness of her own.
52 페이지 - It is made up of incongruous parts. The village in its happy days is a true English village. The village in its decay is an Irish village. The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has brought close together belong to two different countries, and to two different stages in the progress of society. He 'had assuredly never seen in his native island such a rural paradise, such a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity, as his Auburn.
59 페이지 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, " than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " " No, it is not,'' were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
190 페이지 - Only one must not say so. But what think you ? What? Is- there not sad stuff? What? What?