Windfalls
Windfalls
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" There is nothing English for which we would exchange him. " Indian Empire or no Indian Empire, " we say with Carlyle, " we cannot do without our Shakespeare. " For the second place, the choice is less obvious, but I think it goes indisputably to him who had " . . . A voice whose sound was like the sea. " Milton plays the moon to Shakespeare's sun. He breathed his mighty harmonies into the soul of England like a god. He gave us the note of the sublime, and his influence is like a natural eleme...nt, all pervasive, intangible, indestructible. With him stands his " chief of men "the " great bad man " of Burke the one man of action in our annals capable of measuring his stature with Bismarck for crude ON GREAT MEN 147 power, but overshadowing Bismarck in the realm of the spirit the man at whose name the cheek of Mazarin turned pale, who ushered in the modern world by sounding the death-knell of despotic monarchism, who founded the naval supremacy of these islands and who (in spite of his own ruthless- ness at Drogheda) first made the power of England the instrument of moral law in Europe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" There is nothing English for which we would exchange him. " Indian Empire or no Indian Empire, " we say with Carlyle, " we cannot do without our Shakespeare. " For the second place, the choice is less obvious, but I think it goes indisputably to him who had " . . . A voice whose sound was like the sea. " Milton plays the moon to Shakespeare's sun. He breathed his mighty harmonies into the soul of England like a god. He gave us the note of the sublime, and his influence is like a natural eleme...nt, all pervasive, intangible, indestructible. With him stands his " chief of men "the " great bad man " of Burke the one man of action in our annals capable of measuring his stature with Bismarck for crude ON GREAT MEN 147 power, but overshadowing Bismarck in the realm of the spirit the man at whose name the cheek of Mazarin turned pale, who ushered in the modern world by sounding the death-knell of despotic monarchism, who founded the naval supremacy of these islands and who (in spite of his own ruthless- ness at Drogheda) first made the power of England the instrument of moral law in Europe.
What to read after Windfalls?
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