Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484511537
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Excerpt from Literary Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue; and, where he is least happy, his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native, not from the ignorance of a foreigner. We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity says of Cowley. He wears the garb, but not the clothes of the ancients. Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind, emancipated from the influence Of authority, and devoted to the search of truth. Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone and his digest Of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared. But he is not always so happy in his inferences as in his Citations. 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.
