The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, 6. kötet |
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5. oldal
... thousand disguises , attended him to the grave . No observation that dropped from the lips of Majesty seemed to him too trifling to be recorded . The French songs of Prince Frederic , compositions certainly not deserving of preservation ...
... thousand disguises , attended him to the grave . No observation that dropped from the lips of Majesty seemed to him too trifling to be recorded . The French songs of Prince Frederic , compositions certainly not deserving of preservation ...
7. oldal
... thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of Whithed , Cam- bridge , Coventry , and Lord Bath , are forgotten . Soame Jenyns is remembered chiefly by Johnson's review of the foolish Essay on the ...
... thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of Whithed , Cam- bridge , Coventry , and Lord Bath , are forgotten . Soame Jenyns is remembered chiefly by Johnson's review of the foolish Essay on the ...
15. oldal
... thousand Italian castles in which condottieri have revelled or in which imprisoned duchesses have pined . We cannot say that we much admire the big man whose sword is dug up in one quarter of the globe , whose helmet drops from the ...
... thousand Italian castles in which condottieri have revelled or in which imprisoned duchesses have pined . We cannot say that we much admire the big man whose sword is dug up in one quarter of the globe , whose helmet drops from the ...
26. oldal
... thousand questions were opened in a moment . A thousand conflicting claims were preferred . It was impossible to follow any line of policy which would not have been offensive to a large portion of the successful party . It was ...
... thousand questions were opened in a moment . A thousand conflicting claims were preferred . It was impossible to follow any line of policy which would not have been offensive to a large portion of the successful party . It was ...
40. oldal
... thousand kindred bubbles were daily blown into existence , the periwig - company , and the Spanish - jackass - company , and the quicksilver - fixation - company , Walpole's calm good sense preserved him from the general infatuation ...
... thousand kindred bubbles were daily blown into existence , the periwig - company , and the Spanish - jackass - company , and the quicksilver - fixation - company , Walpole's calm good sense preserved him from the general infatuation ...
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242. oldal - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
106. oldal - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
242. oldal - Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks 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...
242. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
630. oldal - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,...
629. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. 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...
316. oldal - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
630. oldal - ... too was she, the 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, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs.
628. oldal - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
122. oldal - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...