The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which... A history of advertising - Página 9por Henry Sampson - 1874 - 615 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1831 - 738 páginas
...Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered...the best specimens of English prose which our age baa produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three, which we could select from... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...unto the writer of it as wi? have done unto Mr. Robert Montgomery. * LIFE AND POETRY OF LORD BYRON, f We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves lo be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Il contains, indeed,... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 páginas
...we have done Untolttr. Robert Montgomery. * LIFE AND POETRY OF LORD BYRON, -jWe have read this beok with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the bcst specimens ol English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...this, — the People will assuredly do the rest. MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [Edinburgh Review, 1831.] WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....no single passage equal to two or three, which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1S31.J WK have read this book with the greatest plaa.Mire. on what they remotely suggest However strange, however...describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the s could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...— the people will assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [EDI.NDUKGH REVIEW, 1831.} WK have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered...indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...the government do this — the people will assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.' WE hare de could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
| 1852 - 588 páginas
...principles of the church, that it must commend itself to the thoughtful consideration of every sect. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...classed among the best specimens of English prose from living writers. Its style is vigorous, chaste, and nervous, occasionally rising into eloquence... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 páginas
...Journals of Lord Byron ; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered...indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 páginas
...English prose. " Considered merely as a composition," says Mr. Macaulay, speaking of the Life of Byron, The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or... | |
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