 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 443edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...not only to delight, jut to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy .he man who can study either the life or the writings of the great Poet and Patriot without...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured Tor the public good, the fortitude with which le endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 pages
...INTERVIEW WITH THE DUKE OF YORK. MACAULAY said he did not envy "the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...not, indeed, the sublime works with which his genius baa enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good — the fortitude... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...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...which he looked down on temptation and dangers, the dvadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and thet'a'th wnich he so sternly kept with his... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...malignancy of his enemies, have sought to load it, " We envy not the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...enriched our literature, — but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...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...to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which hii genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...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...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...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...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...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...to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which hia genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...history. Of Milton Macaulay has well said that he does 1 not envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...enriched our literature,- but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity,-the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...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...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
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