| 1831 - 738 páginas
...Byron: with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...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, no single passage equal lo two or three which we could select from the Life of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...assuredly do the rest. MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [Edinburgh Review, 1831.] WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| 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...sound, the smell, the taste: he counts the numbers; he work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without tffort... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...this — the people will assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.' WE hare read this book work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without «ffort... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Harper & Brothers - 1855 - 226 páginas
...of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, $1 75 ; Half Calf, $2 75. Considered merely ns a composition, it deserves to be classed among the...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract can give a just notion. So sad... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 páginas
...with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
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