any thing in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. - The latter manner he practises most frequently in his tragedies, the former in his comedies. The comic characters are, without mixture, loathsome and despicable.... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 128por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Congress - 1852 - 776 páginas
...if persisted in, will work its own cure. I said on a former day that there is nothing like this city in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. This language has been reprehended by some. There are gentlemen who are greater historians than I am.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 páginas
...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." The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with a description of the creation, in which we can... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 páginas
...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." The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with a description of the creation, in which we can... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 716 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in...of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach to the Caledons, the Wildbloods, the Woodalls,... | |
| 1877 - 360 páginas
...science, and the conclusions of so-called scientific men. Facts are facts, wherever you meet them, in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth; nor is there one solitary fact throughout nature's vast domain, which will be found in collision with... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1879 - 588 páginas
...he has merely given, instead, the likeness 2 L of things that never were " in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The place in the geologic scale, as certainly as the forms and characters, of these ancient fishes, had... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 462 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in...of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach tt> the Caledons, the Wildbloods, the Woodalls,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey-carpets, to have, been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in...of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach to the Galedons, the Wildbloods, the "Woodalls,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. during the night is perhaps the only passage which ought to be exempted from this censure. If it was... | |
| Charles F. Orvis - 1886 - 378 páginas
...with flies of directly opposite hues, and of shapes and sizes which were the counterpart of nothing " in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." There are, however, standard flies which experience has shown to be generally more " taking" than others,... | |
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