 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 pages
...invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor 5 do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with 10 which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 pages
...heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who 10 can study either the life or the writings of the great...laboured for the public good, the fortitude, with 15 which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 pages
...ant to us. His thoughts are powerful not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...sublime works with which his genius has enriched our is literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1909 - 254 pages
...words from Symmons' ' Life of Milton ' : "With the eloquent Macaulay, who can study either the life or writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed his sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 392 pages
...admired Milton the man even more than Milton the poet. Here is just the last sentence: — Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 pages
...sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private ca20 lamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pages
...invigorr. te and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...not indeed the sublime works with which his genius his enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pages
...invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, hot indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 pages
...invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...invigorate and to heal. They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
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They are powerful, not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched... 
