Thomas Babington Macaulay
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilised people is poetical.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, Milton
Posted on July 16, 2003 at 7:55 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The English Bible—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden
Posted on October 16, 2001 at 2:47 PM
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