Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, 第 1〜2 巻A.C. Armstrong & son, 1860 |
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
absurd admiration Æneid Æschylus ALCIBIADES ancient appears aristocracy army Athenian Athens beautiful Bentham Cæsar CALLIDEMUS cause century character Charles common constitution dæmons Dante Demosthenes despotism Divine Comedy doctrines doubt Dryden Edinburgh Review effect England English equal Euripides evil exist fact favour fecundity feelings genius give greatest happiness greatest happiness principle Greek Herodotus HIPPOMACHUS historians honour human nature imagination interest Italy King language less liberty literature Long Parliament Lord Machiavelli manner means ment Mill Mill's Milton mind Mitford monarchy moral nations never noble object opinion Parliament party passion peculiar person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetry political Prince principle produced readers reason respect Revolution Sadler scarcely seems society sophisms Southey SPEUSIPPUS spirit square mile strong style taste tells theory thing Thucydides tion truth tyrant wealth Westminster Reviewer whole words writer
人気のある引用
430 ページ - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
246 ページ - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
219 ページ - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
257 ページ - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities; insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain; not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.
255 ページ - ... themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should...
393 ページ - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
255 ページ - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
213 ページ - The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys, as by other ideas which are connected with them.
460 ページ - Satan; so call him now; his former name Is heard no more in heaven...
264 ページ - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery.