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
| Edward Jesse - 1875 - 402 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15^. . ** It is to be regretted that the prose writings of MUton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attentioti of every man.who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language.... | |
| Giles Fletcher - 1876 - 320 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15$. f " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which Bis feelings, excited... | |
| William Wilkie Collins - 1876 - 500 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 151. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1876 - 162 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15$. *' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...earlier books of the 'Paradise Lost' has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15*. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...earlier books of the 'Paradise Lost* has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which Bis feelings, excited... | |
| Clément Henri Sanson - 1876 - 352 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, i5*. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has the his controversial works in which s of devotional and lyric rapture. ? uae 'a sev harping symphonies.."... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...of his sentences. ' It is to be regretted,' says Lord Macaulay, 'that the prose writings of Milton rt reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates,...affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
| Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 440 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15$. " It is to be regretteJ that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. Th'-y are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1876 - 392 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, i^r. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink int« insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1876 - 426 páginas
...Imp. 8vo, with Portraits, cl. extra, 15*. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink int» insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
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