 ... 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
 | Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 160 pages
...commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the states5 man, the philosopher, the glory of English literature,...wish first to speak. By the general suffrage of the civilised world, his place has been 10 assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors,... | |
 | 1879 - 396 pages
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 | William Murison - English language - 1926 - 452 pages
...visitation, a dog-in-the-manger policy . But it is often necessary to be diffuse in order to be forcible ; as "It is by his poetry that Milton is best known; and...it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak." This is more emphatic than "Milton is best known by his poetry; and we wish first to speak of it."... | |
 | 1878 - 900 pages
...would still be honored as one of the grandest in the annals of the past. Macaulay describes Milton as " the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. " Let us consider his right to the last appellation ; what he has done to deserve so high a tribute.... | |
 | North American review - 1921 - 906 pages
...their heroic efforts he wrote Samson Agonistes. As a poet and statesman, says Macaulay, Milton was "the glory of English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty". He lived in an age of exalted privileges in culture and learning, and without restraint exhausted every... | |
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