 | 1835 - 932 pages
...qualities inslead of men. They may be beller able lo analyse human nalure than their predecessors. Bui analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not lo dissect. He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaflesbury ; he may refer all human actions lo self-inleresl,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury. He may refer all human actions to selfinterest,... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect." " The Greeks," saysMenzel, " translated beautiful nature ; the middle ages translated faith ; we translate... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 532 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect." " The Greeks," says Menzel, " translated beautiful nature ; the middle ages translated faith ; we translate... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect." " The Greeks," says Menzel, " translated beautiful nature ; the middle ages translated faith ; we translate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But t their occasional infractions of discipline, than to hear them, night after night, He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury. He may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But , though there were many clever men in England during the He may believe in a mora. sense, iike Shaftesbury. He may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But rnments, and of all the ecclesiastical establishments, that now exist in the world; He may believe in a morai ser se, like Shaflesbury. He mav referai! human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury. He may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
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... men know more, and think more, they look less at individuals, and more at classes. They therefore make better theories, and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better able... 
