It is time for us to regard him as he really was, with all his physical and moral audacity, with all his tenderness and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1311901Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1898 - 700 pages
...(Longmans), whose influence he thus describes : " He is in the world of action what Shakespeare is in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time." Furthermore, Mr. Gardiner issued through the same firm his What the Gunpowder Plot was. with illustrations... | |
| Richard D. Graham - 1897 - 564 pages
...concludes, 'it has fared as with ourselves. Royalists painted him as a devil. Carlyle painted him as a masterful saint who suited his peculiar Valhalla....Cromwell's place in history. He stands there, not to be implicitly followed as a model, 224 Victorian Literature but to hold up a mirror to ourselves, wherein... | |
| 1897 - 568 pages
...is well-balanced and eminently just, though not identical with some oilier writers. " It is time tor us to regard him as he really was, with all his physical...the greatest, because the most typical, Englishman." — Dial. Humphreys, MG Catherine Schuyler. Through the position of her own famil.y and as the wife... | |
| 1898 - 614 pages
...what precedes. "It is time for us to regard him as he really was," he says at the end of the essay, " with all his physical and moral audacity, with all...most enduring sense is Cromwell's place in history." As there is no infallible dynamometer for measuring the strength of heroes, we ought not to quarrel... | |
| 1898 - 1236 pages
...understood that confidence had been really restored." CROMWELL. "1 t is time for us to regard him as in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the...because the most typical Englishman of all time." That is the judgment ot Dr. SR Gardiner on Oliver Cromwell. in an address delivered on the occasion... | |
| 1898 - 474 pages
...may be traced somewhere or other in Cromwell's career. . . . It is time for us to regard him as he was, with all his physical and moral audacity, with...and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what Shakspere was in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1898 - 676 pages
...(Longmans), whose influence he thus describes : " He is in the world of action what Shakespeare is in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time." Furthermore, Mr. Gardiner issued through the same firm his What the Gunpowder Plot was, with illustrations... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1898 - 736 pages
...(Longmans), whose influence he thus describes : " He is in the world of action what Shakespeare is in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time." Furthermore, Mr. Gardiner issued through the same firm his 1)71181 the Gunpowder Plot was, with illustrations... | |
| Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...(London, 1691), IV, 477, 478. By OLIVER CROMWELL (1599-1658), soldier, statesman, practical idealist. " In the world of action what Shakespeare was in the...because the most typical Englishman of all time." Gardiner. — See Cromwell, Letters and Speeches; Gardiner, Cromwell's Place in History. The officer... | |
| |