Critical, Histor
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共 44 题- CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
- By Lord Macaulay
- With A Memoir And Index
- In Six Volumes. Vol. III
- New York: Published By Sheldon And Company
- ESSAYS.
- BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES. (1)
- And who
- And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old
- MIRABEAU. (1)
- WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN. (1)
- It seemed as if his labours were repaid
- His chief delight was, on some festive day
- It seemed as if some momentary spleen
- And most his fortune and success were seen
- HORACE WALPOLE. (1)
- And never gave to truth and virtue that
- WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. (1)
- And the small freight unanxious glide.” (1)
- SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. (1)
- Such was the nation which, awaking from
- LORD BACON. (1)
- That, as ’twas said, he scarce received
- Bacon knew this well. He has told us that there
- Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full
- 1 Advancement of Learning, Book 1.
- 2 De Angmentis, Lib. 7. C:ip. 1.
- 3 Ib. Lib. 2. Cap. 2.
- 4 Novum Organum, Lib. 1. Aph. 81.
- 5 Cogilata el ma.
- 6 Seneca, Epist. 90.
- Assuredly if the tree which Socrates planted and
- 1 _De Augmentis_, Lib. 7. Cap. 1.
- Perocchë gente di motto valore
- But in truth the very admiration which we feel for
- Signavitque viam flammis, tennisque recessit
- Which I will have invented; and thyself
- I know not how yet.”
- So high above the circling canopy
- Of night’s extended shade,--from eastern point
- Of Libra, to the fleecy star which bears
- Andromeda far off Atlantic seas
- One of the most remarkable circumstances in the
- END OF VOL. III.