Frases de Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay foi um poeta, jornalista e escritor do Reino Unido.

Sua mãe morreu rapidamente após o seu nascimento e seu pai era oficial da marinha. Nascido em Perth, na Escócia, e educado na Royal Caledonian Asylum, em Londres, e em Bruxelas, passou a maior parte de sua juventude na França. Voltou a Londres em 1834, onde engajou-se no jornalismo, trabalhando no The Morning Chronical de 1835 a 1844, tornando-se então editor do The Glasgow Argus. Em 1848, transferiu-se para o Illustrated London News, do qual virou editor em 1852. Publicou Songs and Poems , escreveu sobre a história de Londres e o romance Longbeard . Ficou muito conhecido pelo livro Memorando de extraordinários engodos populares e a loucura das multidões.

Mackay também é lembrado pelo seu Dictionary of Lowland Scotch. Sua fama, todavia, repousa em cima de suas canções, algumas das quais, incluindo Cheer, Boys, Cheer, tornaram-se muito populares em 1846. Mackay também atuou como correspondete da revista Times, durante a Guerra civil americana. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Março 1814 – 24. Dezembro 1889
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Charles Mackay: Frases em inglês

“They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun’s meridian glow”

"Eternal Justice", Stanza 4
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
Contexto: They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun’s meridian glow;
The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
And a tyrant work thee woe:
But never a truth has been destroyed;
They may curse it, and call it crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
Its teachers for a time.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.

“But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.”

"Eternal Justice", Stanza 4
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
Contexto: They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun’s meridian glow;
The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
And a tyrant work thee woe:
But never a truth has been destroyed;
They may curse it, and call it crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
Its teachers for a time.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.

“Cannon-balls may aid the truth
But thought’s a weapon stronger;
We’ll win our battles by its aid,
Wait a little longer.”

"The Good Time Coming".
Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)
Contexto: There’s a good time coming, boys!
A good time coming.
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon-balls may aid the truth
But thought’s a weapon stronger;
We’ll win our battles by its aid,
Wait a little longer.

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Charles Mackay livro Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Fonte: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

“There’s a good time coming, boys!
A good time coming.”

"The Good Time Coming".
Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)
Contexto: There’s a good time coming, boys!
A good time coming.
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon-balls may aid the truth
But thought’s a weapon stronger;
We’ll win our battles by its aid,
Wait a little longer.

“If happy I and wretched he,
Perhaps the king would change with me.”

"Differences" in The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859).

“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when earth was young.”

"Tubal Cain".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)

“Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men!”

"Clear the Way".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)

“Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”

Charles Mackay livro Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

“Some love to roam o’er the dark sea’s foam,
Where the shrill winds whistle free.”

"Some Love to Roam".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)

“During seasons of great pestilence, men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come.”

Charles Mackay livro Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

“Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.”

Charles Mackay livro Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

“Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.”

Charles Mackay livro Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)