 There still remained a rugged and clownish soldier, half fanatic, half buffoon, whose talents, discerned as yet only by one penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone...  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 3151895Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which,...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state, — the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 530 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which,...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state, — the valor and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden and in Hampdeu alone, were united all the qualities which, at such a crisis, were necessary to save the slate, — the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which,...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state, — the valor and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state—the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...'s hero is John Hampden ; Mr. Carlyle's, Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Macaulay says : — ' In Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which,...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state, the valour, and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state — the valor and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and rvation that dropped from the lips of majesty seemed to him too trifling to be — the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...Sternhold and Hopkins. equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone, were united all the qualities which,...at such a crisis, were necessary to save the state; — the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and lation of the unities, and could never have been composed if the unities had not been violated. It is cle — the valour and energy of Cromwell, the discernment and eloquence of Vane, the humanity and moderation... | |
| |
