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... writer . It may be doubted whether more exact notions are conveyed to the reader . The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight admixture of caricature ; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in ...
... writer . It may be doubted whether more exact notions are conveyed to the reader . The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight admixture of caricature ; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in ...
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... writer had the use of the papers of Lord Breadalbane , brought home the responsibility of the Glencoe massacre clearly to both William and Mary . with the inference inevitable from the ensuing cir- cumstances of MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ...
... writer had the use of the papers of Lord Breadalbane , brought home the responsibility of the Glencoe massacre clearly to both William and Mary . with the inference inevitable from the ensuing cir- cumstances of MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ...
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... writing history ? We will not affect in a paragraph to extemporize an answer which really requires a volume , but we can freely say this , -it is a dangerous privilege in any hands ; it is dangerous in proportion as the writer is a man ...
... writing history ? We will not affect in a paragraph to extemporize an answer which really requires a volume , but we can freely say this , -it is a dangerous privilege in any hands ; it is dangerous in proportion as the writer is a man ...
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... writing a lampoon upon Cutts , " so dull and nauseously scurrilous that Ward or Gildon would have been ashamed of it ; " and lastly ( supreme offence to well - regulated party feelings ) , as being too rude and familiar with Lord Somers ...
... writing a lampoon upon Cutts , " so dull and nauseously scurrilous that Ward or Gildon would have been ashamed of it ; " and lastly ( supreme offence to well - regulated party feelings ) , as being too rude and familiar with Lord Somers ...
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... writer , " who had purchased the smiles " ( why no longer the pension ? ) of James by his servile apostacy . Mr. Macaulay should remember that Dryden in his lifetime gave some pain- ful and costly proofs of his sincerity . Perhaps he ...
... writer , " who had purchased the smiles " ( why no longer the pension ? ) of James by his servile apostacy . Mr. Macaulay should remember that Dryden in his lifetime gave some pain- ful and costly proofs of his sincerity . Perhaps he ...
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Page 65 - Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
Page 63 - Self-respect and a fine sense of the becoming were not to be expected from one who had led a life of mendicancy and adulation. Finding that, if he continued to call himself a Protestant, his services would be overlooked, he declared himself a papist. The king's parsimony instantly relaxed. Dryden was gratified with a pension of a hundred pounds a year, and was employed to defend his new religion both in prose and verse.
Page 170 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell) what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Page 185 - The awful point was, that while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity ; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the faded eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health. To stand by and witness this, and not dare to remonstrate, was a pain no words can render.
Page 42 - The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature, and we are not certain, that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy ; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected ; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. The History terminates with the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.- Machiavelli had, it seems, intended...
Page 50 - Marlborough was one of the few who have, in the bloom of youth, loved lucre more than wine or women, and who have, at the height of greatness, loved lucre more than power or fame.
Page 170 - When the argument got warm, and rose to its height, as their mother was then dead, I had sometimes to come in as arbitrator, and settle the dispute according to the best of my judgment. Generally in the management of these concerns I frequently thought that I discovered signs of rising talent, which I had seldom or never before seen in any of their age/.
Page 83 - The Catholics were not emancipated — the Corporation and Test Acts were unrepealed — the Game Laws were horribly oppressive — Steel Traps and Spring Guns were set all over the country — Prisoners tried for their Lives could have no Counsel — Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily...
Page 235 - I understand he fancies that if I had married another woman I might not only have had a better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute* (think, how shockingly erroneous !), and wandering (or some such phrase) to London.
Page 11 - the public were appealed to on the subject ; pamphlets were written, and newspapers were hired to revile the railway. It was declared that its formation would prevent cows grazing and hens laying. The poisoned air from the locomotives would kill birds as they flew over them, and render the preservation of pheasants and foxes no longer possible. Householders adjoining the projected line were told that their houses would be burnt up by the fire thrown from the engine chimneys, while the air around...