John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. (1800–1859) (continued) |
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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. |
| On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830. |
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| We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. |
| On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830. |
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| From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife. |
| On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830. |
| 6142 |
| That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. |
| On Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. 1831. |
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| The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. |
| On Horace Walpole. 1833. |
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| What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!—To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! |
| On Boswell’s Life of Johnson (Croker’s ed.). 1831. |
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| Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. 1 |
| On Sir William Temple. 1838. |
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| He was a rake among scholars and a scholar among rakes. |
| Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison. |
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| She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand |
| Note 1. See Pope, pages 331–332. [back] |