 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...to the Council of State, with a salary of £300 per annum. Of his prose writings it has been said, "They abound with passages compared with which the...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance." He wrote against the established church, and was stern and inflexible in principle, in regard to both... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become y successfully against Johnson's accusation, and has...physical cleanliness and social decorum as those which 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
...lime, 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....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
...time, bf 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....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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...time, be so little read. As composions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language....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
...following terms : — "As compositions, ihey deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language....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
...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....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
...[1825] 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....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
...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....abound with passages' compared with which the finest declamationsof Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style... | |
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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... 
