 | 1837 - 608 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination should entertain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination should entertain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never come* usation against Gromwei. and which has been made by...of a severe accusation against Mr. Hallam. We conce honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 254 pages
...that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 260 pages
...that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, " Plato is never sullen. Cervantes " is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes " unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." MILVERTON. Besides, one can manage to agree so well, intellectually, with a book ; and intellectual... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person endowed with sensibility and imagination should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person of sensibility and imagination... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...never sullen. Ceivantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comei unseasonably. Dante never slays rom which in his youth he had carried home his bride, Elizabeth, was i honor of Bossuet Nothing, then, can be more natural than thac a person of sensibility and imagination... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably....difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No error can excite the horror of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be more natural, than that a person endowed... | |
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These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes... 
