 | 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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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 exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. 
