... moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and... Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 430edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Presbyterianism - 1826 - 596 pages
...these points," and then proceed to their purpose, which is "to commemorate in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty." We were particularly struck with the character given of the Puritans by these reviewers, and we shall... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...as well as move us, to elevate as well as to instruct. MILTON. (No. 1.) Disquisition on his Poetry.* It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish to speak. By the general suffrage of the civilised world, his place has been assigned among the greatest... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...of his poetry that we wish first to speak. By the genreal suffrage of the civilised world, his place has been- assigned among the greatest masters of... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness...whom nothing was to be got, were suffered to depart; g-eatest masters of the art His detractors, however, though out-voted, have not been silenced. There... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...present, we in m for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English liierature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton is best... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton. the poet, the statesman, (he philosopher, the glory of English literature, the...By the general suffrage of the civilized world, his plar.e has been assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors, however, though out-voted,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known; end it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak. By the general suffrage of the civilized world,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of Jjolm Milton, Hie poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of...wish first to speak. By the general suffrage of the civilised world, his place has been assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors,... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1860 - 756 pages
...short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and the virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English literature, and the martyr of English liberty ! " When did he play martyr for liberty — when he sacrificed her... | |
| David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...parts are of nearly equal length, and, taken together, constitute a complete and very brilliant Life of Milton, " the poet, the statesman, the philosopher,...the glory of English literature, the champion and martyr of English liberty." Professor Masson, of London University, has spent years upon a Life of... | |
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