 To make the past present, to bring the distant near, to place us in the society of a great man, or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to...  Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 199by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 918 pages
...mighty hattle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inelined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory,...garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at then- tables, to rummage their oUl-foshioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture,... | |
 | 1889 - 610 pages
...history a ' true novel . . . and to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory ; call up our ancestors before us, with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb ; show... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1890 - 1100 pages
...invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider aa superior to them in manner. When he talked, he clothed...expressions. Аз soon as he took his pen in his eiplain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the... | |
 | John Alexander Steuart - Authors, American - 1890 - 322 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory,. . . these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated by the historical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1892 - 934 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we s. furniture,—these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 676 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings ,whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which properly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1895 - 938 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of Ianguage, mann'ers, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle; to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture." Scenical histories presuppose in the reader "a general knowledge of the great cardinal incidents."... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 pages
...pictures to the imagination. ... It should invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory ; call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb ; show... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...gallery. To use his own language, it invests " with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory ; calls up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb; shows... | |
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