... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 244por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1840 - 882 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost, has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, ' a seven fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies !' " Indeed, no one can know and fully appreciate... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at these performances,... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 páginas
...style is sliff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to liorrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* . We had intended... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher th/in in those parts of his controversial works, in which...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...style is stiff/ with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at their performances, to analyse the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1843 - 720 páginas
...Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of liis controversial works in which liis feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The lieason of Church... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Benson of Church Government... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in the bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold... | |
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