... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 21by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...characlers inlo their elements, would he have been able to combine (hose elements in such a manner as lo make up a man, — a real, living, individual man?...Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poelry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be... | |
| William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 194 pages
...occasion to discuss the poetry of the immortal bard. In one part of the article, the Reviewer says: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, ii WELSH AS A NATION. anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry... | |
| William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 186 pages
...occasion to discuss the poetry of the immortal bard. In one part of the article, tlie Reviewer says : " Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, M anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 358 pages
...Milton ought to be regarded in any respect as lunatics. " Perhaps DO person can be a poet, or can ever enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind,...anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundneas." Essays, vol. ip 7. The position is guarded and qualified, in the above quotation, but... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...subject as is to be | found in the " Fable ot' the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago ? of composition; and he has, therefore, succeeded, wherever success was not impossible. man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any tiling which... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...the subject as is to be found in the "Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago 1 nd meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...were constantly fixed. They recognised no title to man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...subject as is to be found in the " Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago Í ubdued by them. Their dominions stretched across the...captains reigned at Poonah, at Saulior, in Guzerat, in Be ajnan — a real, living, individual man Î Perhaps no man can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees. But could Mandeville have created an lago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their...poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry wo mean not all writing... | |
| Books - 1854 - 382 pages
..."Hastings." We cannot consider Macaulay a great poet. Let us turn to his own definition of a poet : — " Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundiiess of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundiiess. By... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...subject as is to be found in the " Fable of the Bees." But could Mandeville have created an lago 1 Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their...to make up a man — a real, living, individual man Î Perhaps no man can be a poet, or can even «njoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind,... | |
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