Poet Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

8 Poet quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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Macaulay’s poetry often drifts between personal memory and broader observation. These few lines hint at his gentle, contemplative voice.

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In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to…

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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and…

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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must…

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Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not…

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Language is the machine of the poet.

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The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.…

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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

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Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

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Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in…

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Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely…

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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth…

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It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable…

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Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

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In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

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He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

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The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests,…

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