 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
 | Carroll Lewis Maxcy - English language - 1911 - 304 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. Although, as Macaulay goes on to say, the dramatic presentation thus indicated has, in large degree,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 842 pages
...of a- mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too mush inclined to consider as personified qualities in an...manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat ua at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of .their ponderous... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - Education - 1915 - 366 pages
..."LIFE OF JOHNSON" It [history] 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 us... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - English language - 1917 - 662 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, those parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated by the historical... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 544 pages
...or his desire to call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manner, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us...to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture. To all such matter, and to battles, pageants, and great scenic occurrences, Hallam reveals a certain... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 504 pages
...of materialism. He is also wholly without Macaulay's vivid feeling for the concrete, or his desire to call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manner, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to mm mage their old-fashioned... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 500 pages
...of materialism. He is also wholly without Macaulay's vivid feeling for the concrete, or his desire to call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manner, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned... | |
 | Mary Ellen Chase, Frances Kelley Del Plaine - American prose literature - 1926 - 520 pages
...overlooks the scene 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...the uses of their ponderous furniture" — these, he writes, are "parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian." And such an historian Macaulay... | |
 | Mary Ellen Chase - American literature - 1929 - 640 pages
...overlooks the scene 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...language, manners and garb, to show us over their homes, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of... | |
 | Mary Ellen Chase - American literature - 1929 - 640 pages
...and blood beings whom we »v <v are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an V\V allegory, to call up our ancestors before us with...language, manners and garb, to show us over their homes, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of... | |
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