 | John Adams - Teaching - 1910 - 448 pages
...elaboration of the meaning contained in that first sentence. When Macaulay has said of Horace Walpole: "The conformation of his mind was such that whatever...great, and whatever was great seemed to him little, " he has given us the whole substance of the paragraph that 1 Analytical Psychology, Vol. I, p. 92... | |
 | Harold Begbie - Character - 1911 - 320 pages
...as fatal to grandeur of soul as the sestheticism of Oscar Wilde or the crotchet of Horace Walpole. " The conformation of his mind was such that whatever...great, and whatever was great seemed to him little." The seriousness of this matter does not lie in the sacerdotalist's mistake of accounting little things... | |
 | Norman Pearson - Eighteenth century - 1911 - 532 pages
...periodical " (letter to Mann, April 2, 1750). Macaulay remarks that " The conformation of his [Walpole's] mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him...great, and whatever was great seemed to him little." This, however, is an extravagant misrepresentation. As we have seen, he was by no means indifferent... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - English language - 1911 - 216 pages
...Whatever pleases you in others will in general please them in you. 18 Macaulay said of Horace Walpole that whatever was little seemed to him great and whatever was great seemed to him little. 19 What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent. 20 No man can lose what he never had. 88. The Relative... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. LUCRETIUS — De Rerum Natttra. III. 446. 24 The Calf-Path. 22 Boston State-house is the hub of...couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tir MACAULAY—On Horace Walpole. 25 Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nee immensse moles, ceduntque recessus:... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...perspective. At times they almost justify Macaulay's assertion that the conformation of the writer's mind "was such that whatever was little seemed to...great, and whatever was great seemed to him little". The pervading atmosphere of malice, self-seeking, and chicane detracts much from the pleasure which... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...perceptive. At times they almost justify Macaulay's assertion that the conformation of the writer's mind "was such that whatever was little seemed to...great, and whatever was great seemed to him little". The pervading atmosphere of malice, self-seeking, and chicane detracts much from the pleasure which... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. 6808 Essays ... 'Horace Walpole' oundatlon of all good things. Your representative owes 6809 Essays ... 'Sir lames Mackintosh' The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - Fiction - 2002 - 212 pages
...decease, - at Rank, and never for a moment forgot he was an Honourable, - at the practice of Entail,2 and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up...great, and whatever was great, seemed to him little. In every thing in which he busied himself, - in the fine arts, in literature, in public affairs, -... | |
 | Harvard University - English language - 1940 - 132 pages
...be published after his decease ; at rank, and never for a moment forgot that he was an Honourable ; at the practice of entail, and tasked the ingenuity...tie up his villa in the strictest settlement." The balanced sentence may be used to excess, and then it becomes wearisome. But when occasion for its use... | |
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... scandal; at society, and was blown about by its slightest veerings of opinion ; at literary fame, and left fair copies of his private letters, with copious notes, to be published after his decease ; at rank, and never for a moment forgot that he was... 
