 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 - 1914 - 192 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...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 - English prose literature - 1917 - 362 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 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...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 - English prose literature - 1917 - 716 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 aspiring to emulate, hot indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 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...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 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...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...quiet earth. EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights. 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 1 Introduction by Bonamy Dobree to The Bachelor of the Albany, by Marmion Savage. Ed. 1927.... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 252 pages
...laboured 1 Introduction by Bonamy Dobr£e to The Bachelor of the Albany, by Marmion Savage. Ed. 1927. for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 432 pages
...serious disadvantage since it cannot be preceded by a preposition — 'the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured...private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked on temptations and dangers'. In such a period as this the substitution of that for which renders the... | |
 | Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...our own love of the amiable, the self-sacrificing and the good, and learning the better to emulate " the zeal with which he labored for the public good,...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
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