By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
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Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this the People will assuredly do the rest.Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lars Porsena of Clusium By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more.
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
But those behind cried 'Forward' And those before cried 'Back'.
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