"Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"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 the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth."
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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