 ... 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 - Authors, English - 1893 - 222 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 of English litera- 25 ture, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1895 - 934 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, civilised world, his place has been assigned among the greatest masters of the art. His detractors,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 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...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. 1 8. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pages
...presentj'YwB turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to conTmemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty. l ~t 8. It is by his poetry that Milton is Best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pages
...for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genins and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman,...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.1 8. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 122 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...philosopher, the glory of English literature, the champion 10 and the martyr of English liberty. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known; and it is of his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 88 pages
...present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and 5 reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the...known'; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak.1 By the general 10 suffrage of the civilized world, his place has been assigned among the greatest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1897 - 282 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...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.1 8. It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1897 - 508 pages
...In cheerful godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. "John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher,...literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty." — Macaulay. " It is certain that this author, when in a happy mood and employed on a noble subject,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 682 pages
...John Milton, the poet, the statesman, tKe~philosopher, the glory of English literature, the _champion and the martyr of English liberty. It is by his poetry...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,... | |
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