 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 páginas
...with Notices of his Life. BY THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 410. London : 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan.1 But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear,... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 508 páginas
...unsurpassed in his own or in later generations. MOORE'S LIFE1 OF LORD BYRON WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...passage equal to two or three which we could select from 5 the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOOBE, 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... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 páginas
...XXXVII, 387. Bagehot . . . was one of the greatest essayists who ever lived. BOOKMAN , No. 276, 243a. It deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. MAC., Moore's Life of Byron. They bore the largest acorns which I had ever seen. FROUDE , O ceana ,... | |
 | Serge L. Levitsky - 1979 - 522 páginas
...(published in London in 1830) "with the greatest pleasure", partly at least, because the collection "deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced".379 Neither was Goncharov contending that all private 376. Goncharov, p. 122. It should be... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 páginas
...Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, 1843, which ran through many editions.) 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 754 páginas
...those of Sobieski. From the Edinburgh Review. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LORD BYRON.* WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...single passage equal to two or three, which we could * Letters ami Journals of Lord Uvron : with Notices of his bile. Ну Thomas Moore, Esq. 2 vols. 4to.... | |
 | 1924 - 920 páginas
...work as " an execrably poor book of excellently good materials." Macaulay, on the other hand, says : " Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...specimens of English prose which our age has produced." No doubt Macaulay 's praise is exaggerated ; but this much may be said, that Moore's biography is at... | |
 | 1853 - 664 páginas
...English prose. "Considered merely as a composition," says Mr. Macaulay, speaking of the Life of Byron, " it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when i' rises into eloquence, rises without effort or... | |
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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. 
