 | English literature - 1833 - 360 pages
...and deception, the clear discernment of truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction." Again, — " In an enlight.ened age there will be much intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification and subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses and even... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. Ina rude state of society, men are children with a greater variety of ideas. It is therefore in such a slate of society that we may expect lo find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection. In... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. In a rude state of society men are children with a...intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification and subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses, and even... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. In a rude state of society men are children with a...we may expect to find the poetical temperament in ita highest perfection. In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence, much science, much philosophy,... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...teeth of the monster at her thront. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. " In a rude state of society, men are children with...highest perfection. In an enlightened age there will DC much intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification and subtle analysis,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. In a rude state of society, men are children with...its highest perfection. In an enlightened age there wilt bo much intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification and subtle... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. P«ch is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. u just classification and subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses, and eren... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...question at issue I might quote from Lord Macaulay, whose fame is at present so far in apogee : — " In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification, »ml subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of venes, and... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. ociety has made, during the last four centuries, in every species of knowledge, we infer, not that just classification and subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses, and even... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...teeth of the monster at her throat. Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated minds. In a rude state of society men are children with a...intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of just classification and subtle analysis, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses, and even... | |
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In a rude state of society men are children with a greater variety of ideas. It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection. In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence,... 
