Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
historical use nations
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
art men abuse
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.
names years byron
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
perseverance war self
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
strength character blue
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
love hate two
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
fashion names honor
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.
bridges brave bravery
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
men world standards
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
mountain firsts dawn
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
distance rome government
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.
humanity mind looks
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
silence temples graves
The temple of silence and reconciliation.
latin poet satire
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.