 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 256 sider
...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 - 1893 - 244 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1894 - 916 sider
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But essential activities may be made with comparative rapidity — and when, consequen He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 96 sider
...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 ; l he may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | 1895 - 508 sider
...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 Shaf tesbury ; i he may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 sider
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors. But and, exhausted by fatigue, had thrown himself on his bed. He was awakened by the al He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self-interest,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 90 sider
...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 - 1895 - 256 sider
...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 Shaftesbnry.1 He may refer all human actions to self-interest... | |
 | John Lord - 1896 - 518 sider
...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 - 1898 - 266 sider
...qualities instead of men. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But 30 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... 
