 ... 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 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 statesman, the philosopher, the glory oi English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1878 - 444 pages
...rhetoric, the enthusiasm of Macaulay, do not cast as intense a light as we could wish for in viewing "the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet,...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty." There is a grandeur in the man that cannot be fitly described by the flushed fancy and the lavish strength... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - English literature - 1878 - 212 pages
...(VI., st. 17.) " O woman! in our hours of ease." (VI., st. 30.) CHAPTER XIV. JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. "Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher,...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty." — Macaulay. " The first place among our English poets is due to Milton." — Addison. The following... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - English literature - 1878 - 212 pages
...there a man with soul so dead." (VI., st. 2.) 3. From Marmion : CHAPTER XIV. JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. "Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher,...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty."—Macaulay. " The first place among our English poets is due to Milton." —Addiaon. The... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1878 - 396 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...the philosopher, the glory of English literature, thc champion and the martyr of English liberty. Nothing better in the way of general review of character... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1879 - 448 pages
...In cheerful godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay."— Wordsworth. " John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher,...the champion and the martyr of English liberty."— Macaulay. " The old Wind poet hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man. If its length he not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English - 1880 - 844 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...By the general suffrage of the civilized world, his plnce has been assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors, however, though outvoted,... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, , but he knows it only by an inference ; till the restored light, coming in aid of tho civilised world his place has been assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 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...English literature, the champion and the martyr of hnglish liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton is l)est known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish... | |
| |
