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Description:Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays: On Oliver Goldsmith Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay "Twenty years ago," writes O. W. Firkins in The Forum of November, 1912, "one would have said that the style of Macaulay, except as a qualifying force, had disappeared from English literature - that it belonged with the sackbut and the virginals, with the baldric and the coat-of-mail, among the curiosities of history. But the fact of death is not always established, in literature at least, by the fact of inquest, and one of the youngest of our later writers has taken the relic from its cabinet, reset and refurbished it, and found its merits preferable to the praise of originality. The old marks of Macaulay, the short, forcible sentence with the velocity and the impact of a missile, the clash of a word upon its repeated self like jingling castanets, the old readiness, if not quite the old richness and remoteness, of allusion, the controversial zest, the glow of conflict, the impatience of half-truths and half-certainties, the insistence that all assertions shall be sweeping and all demonstrations final, the old and more than the old fertility of comparison and the relish for the homely simile that rivets and clamps the idea, the fearless use of balance, the terse, casual sarcasm which, like the scythe on the chariot, does execution as an incident of transit - all these traits, for the most part unabated and unabashed, reappear today in the style of" No matter whom, since this is not the place to make an excursion into contemporary criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Macaulay's essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay; ed. for school use, by Alphonso G. Newcomer. 1913 [Leather Bound]. To get started finding Macaulay's essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay; ed. for school use, by Alphonso G. Newcomer. 1913 [Leather Bound], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays: On Oliver Goldsmith Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay "Twenty years ago," writes O. W. Firkins in The Forum of November, 1912, "one would have said that the style of Macaulay, except as a qualifying force, had disappeared from English literature - that it belonged with the sackbut and the virginals, with the baldric and the coat-of-mail, among the curiosities of history. But the fact of death is not always established, in literature at least, by the fact of inquest, and one of the youngest of our later writers has taken the relic from its cabinet, reset and refurbished it, and found its merits preferable to the praise of originality. The old marks of Macaulay, the short, forcible sentence with the velocity and the impact of a missile, the clash of a word upon its repeated self like jingling castanets, the old readiness, if not quite the old richness and remoteness, of allusion, the controversial zest, the glow of conflict, the impatience of half-truths and half-certainties, the insistence that all assertions shall be sweeping and all demonstrations final, the old and more than the old fertility of comparison and the relish for the homely simile that rivets and clamps the idea, the fearless use of balance, the terse, casual sarcasm which, like the scythe on the chariot, does execution as an incident of transit - all these traits, for the most part unabated and unabashed, reappear today in the style of" No matter whom, since this is not the place to make an excursion into contemporary criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Macaulay's essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay; ed. for school use, by Alphonso G. Newcomer. 1913 [Leather Bound]. To get started finding Macaulay's essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay; ed. for school use, by Alphonso G. Newcomer. 1913 [Leather Bound], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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