It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages... Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Página 72por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 190 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...Impetus, et rapido contrariui cvehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton their prototypes he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...contrarius cvehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our lime, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...are a perfect field of cloth of gold. ' The style is stifl", with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...to be regretted,' says a modern critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, bf so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth oí gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
| James Pycroft - 1854 - 360 páginas
...Milton's prose works are so little read, and says they deserve the attention of every man who would become acquainted with the full power of the English language. " They abound with passages superior to the finest declamations of Burke —a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 páginas
...critic in the Edinburgh Review remarks, that ' it is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher, than in those parts of his controversial works in which his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As composions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes...are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stifT, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever rifen... | |
| 1857 - 574 páginas
...eminent critic eulogizes the prose writing of Milton in the following terms : — "As compositions, ihey deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become...with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insiguificance. They are a perfect field of a cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 páginas
...critic in the Edinburgh Review remarks, that ' it is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in tha earlier books of Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher, than in those parts of his controversial... | |
| 1869 - 478 páginas
..."It is to be regretted," says Macaulay, that the prose-writings of Milton should in our time [1825] be so little read. As compositions they deserve the...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a perfect field of cloth-of-gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...Impetus, el rápido contrarius evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton ty, do what he can for the purpose of providing the...We should say the same of government. Government is declamationsof Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style... | |
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