The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. -Thomas Babington Macaulay

 

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.


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By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods.

Thomas Babington Macaulay