 But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction...  Reviews, Essays, and Poems - Page 93by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the...half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel. The early part of our imaginary history would be rich with coloring from romance,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the...half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel. The early part of our imaginary history would be rich with coloring from romance,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which acaulay the Fortunes of Nigel. The early part of our imaginary history would be rich with colouring from romance,... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...But a truly great his"torian would reclaim those materials "which the novelist has appropriated. " The government and the history of the "people would...intermixture. We should not then have "to look for the history of the wars and "votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and " for their phraseology inOId Mortality;... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the...conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have u> look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the...half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel. The early part of our imaginary history would be rich with colouring from romance,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which waking. No person remembered the sittings of the three orders, or expected ever to see them renewed. the Fortunes of Nigel. The early part of our imaginary history would be rich with colouring from romance,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 520 pages
...scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The history of the...half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel." So far as the graphic description of the exterior mode of life goes, he has... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 516 pages
...the novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would he exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be...half of King James in Hume, and for the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel." So far as the graphic description of the exterior mode of life goes, he has... | |
 | 1856 - 964 pages
..."justly, in inseparable conjunction and "intermixture. We should not then have "to look for the history of the wars and "votes of the Puritans in Clarendon,...of King James in Hume, and for "the other half in the Fortunes of Nigel." Apart from the historical novels, how many thousands and tens of thousands,... | |
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