 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 páginas
...time be BO little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language....of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery."—Macaulay. t According to Voltaire, "Milton, as he was travelling in Italy, in his youth,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 páginas
...religious reformation, that are so much praised but so little read, of which Macaulay says, "They contain passages compared with which the finest declamations...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." But he must have an income. He opens a private school, takes a few pupils, and enters heartily into... | |
 | William Wilkie Collins - 1875 - 414 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....in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1875 - 292 páginas
...time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes tobecome acquainted with the full power of the English language....in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1875 - 430 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....in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to... | |
 | Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 394 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....in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 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....in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is; to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1875 - 296 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....'Paradise Lost' has the great poet ever risen higher than tn those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1875 - 346 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....the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has the freat poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which is feelings, excited... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1875 - 534 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....in the earlier books of the 'Paradise Lost* has the . __ i. • _ t_ _ _ _..__ •_..__ _.ft' . . • ii ;_ L.:_V. harping sympho MITFORD'S (Mary Russell)... | |
| |
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... 
