But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence, the vocabulary of an enlightened society... The London University Calendar - Page cxliiby London univ - 1874Full view - About this book
| 1850 - 806 pages
...question, aa far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, ' Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical.' Without implying that the Welsh people are not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician, the sculptor, and the painter. But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted...an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half civilised people is poetical. This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the. musician, the sculptor, and the painter. But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted...change in the nature of their intellectual operations, a change by which science gains, and poetry loses. Generalization is necessary to the advancement of... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...question, as far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, " Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical." Without implying that the Welsh people are not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...laws of progress towards perfection in both, do not essentially differ: nor do we even concede that "language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest s^ate." As an instrument, it is certainly capable of improvement like the instruments of the mathematician,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician, the sculptor, and the painter. But itatori e di ricchezze; ma illnstrata sommamente dalla...amministrazione delle cose pubbliche, e d'ingegni molto nobili i. language of men is partly the cause, and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...question, as far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Mr. Macaulay has justly observed, ' Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...— that of a half-civilized people is poetical.' Without implying that the Welsh people arc not as civilized, in the general acceptation of the term,... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 602 pages
...far as we are aware, has not yet had a complete solution. Мг>Мясаи1ау has justly observed, "Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then...vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical — thet of a half-civilized people is poetical." Without implying that the Welsh people are not as... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician, the sculptor, and the painter. But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in ils rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular... | |
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