| William Wilkie Collins - 1879 - 318 páginas
...revised, Complete in One thick Volume, •with Twelve full-page Plates. " l' r e have rend this book uifh the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the lest specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and... | |
| Andrew Wilson - 1879 - 450 páginas
...Twelve full-page Plates. " I£> have read this booh with the greatest pleasure. Considered inertlv ms a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose v-'hieh our age has produced. . . . The stvle is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into... | |
| Benjamin Ward Richardson - 1879 - 430 páginas
...newly revised, Complete in One thick Volume, with Twelve full-page Plates. " VSe have read this book -with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to oe classed atnong the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 páginas
...Byron; with Notice* 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... | |
| Harper and brothers - 1880 - 374 páginas
...Notices of his Life. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $4 00 ; Sheep, $5 00 ; Half Calf, $8 50. By THOMAS MOORE. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...among the best specimens of English prose which our a"e has produced^ Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract can give a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 páginas
...name. VOL. I.—39 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* (Edinburgh Review, June, 1831.) WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to he classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed,... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...sternly kept with his country and with his fame. MOOHE'S "LIFE OF LOKD BYRON."* We have read this book -snuffer, the piece would * Letters and Journals of Lord Byron : with Notices of hia Life. By Thomu Moore, Esq. 2 vJ ;., Ho.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 394 páginas
...By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $4 00 ; Sheep, $5 00; Half Calf, $8 50. Considered merely as n composition, it deserves to be classed among the best...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract cnn give a just notion. So sad... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 páginas
...Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $4 00 ; Sheep, $5 00 ; Half Calf, $8 50. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...classed among the best specimens of English prose which onr age has produced. Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract can give... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...name. VOL. I.— 39 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYROK* (Edinburgh Review, June, 1831.) WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to l>e classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed,... | |
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