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" ... 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 21
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

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...
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An Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation, in the Present Age

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...
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An Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation, in the Present Age

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...
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Macaulay

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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

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...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

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,...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

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...
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Bentley's Monthly Review, Or, Literary Argus, Volume 2

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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

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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