Critical and Historical Essays. Volume 3

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Томас Бабингтон Маколей

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Зарубежная классика

Год написания книги

2018

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Supports the Benares charge against him, 216 (#x7_x_7_i8).

Motive alleged, 219 (#x7_x_7_i12).

Pius V., a bigot, ii. 662.

Plain Dealer, Wycherley's, its appearance and merit, iii. 70 (#x3_x_3_i2), 79 (#x3_x_3_i15).

Plassey, battle of, ii. 713-715.

Its effect in England, 723.

Plato, never sullen, ii. 359.

Comparison of his views with those of Bacon, 456-469.

His excellence in the art of dialogue, 590.

Plutarch, his school of historical writers, their faults, i. 251.

Out of sympathy with their subjects, 252.

Their cant about patriotism, 254.

Their influence on England slight, 255.

The French affected by, 257; ii. 124.

His evidence of gift-taking by Athenian judges, 431.

His anecdote of a speech by Lysias, 601.

Poetry, semi-civilization most favorable to the creation of, i. 86.

Defined, 89.

Use of the supernatural in, 101, 102.

Application of criticism to, 191.

Need of skill in, 198.

Revivals of, 203.

Its decay retarded in England by the drama, 209.

Meaning of correctness in, 581.

Its object, 587.

Its imitation, 588.

Revival of, in England, 591.

Byron's share in its revival, 594.

Pole, Cardinal, ii. 69.

Politian, quoted, ii. 286.

Political Science, progress of, ii. 300, 307, 303, 355, 356.

Polybius, authenticity his only merit as an historian, i. 251.

Pondicherry, ii. 686.

Pope, Alexander, first English author to be free of patronage, i. 548.

Deterioration of his school, 591.

Admired by Byron, 594.

Enriched by political favors, 722.

Esteemed by Johnson, 733.

Friendship with Wycherley, iii. 74 (#x3_x_3_i8).

Defends Addison's Cato, 461 (#x14_x_14_i29).

Estranged from Addison, 469 (#x14_x_14_i49).

His character leads to a suspicion of malignity, 473 (#x15_x_15_i2).

Attacks Addison in Atticus, 474 (#x15_x_15_i11).

Popes, the, restraint of, in Italy, i. 145.

Ranke's History of, reviewed, iii. 1-46 (#x1_x_1_i36).

Popish Plot, the, ii. 321-325.

Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of Peterborough, ii. 164.

Population, theory of excess of, a reflection on the Deity, i. 611.

Sadler's law of, 615.

Disproved by evidence, 617.