 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 362 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....passages compared with which the finest declamations of Furke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 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....has the great poet ever risen higher than in those part* of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts... | |
 | 1877 - 626 páginas
...prose writings of Milton should not be more read. ' They abound,' he says in his rhetorical way, ' with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.' At any rate, they enable us to judge of Milton's temper, of his freedom from asperity. Let us open... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 páginas
...read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with tho h; that the war had been carried on only to fill the pockets of Marlborough; that the peace deelamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of eloth of gold. The style... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture." Perhaps... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 448 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....gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of ' Paradise Lost' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They are a perfect Field of the Cloth of Gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery....even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become antity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses....no other reason, that we know of, but because eve .v perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 páginas
...every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English Language. They abound in passages, compared with which, the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance." So Pat-tiBon, his latest biographer, writes of his prose works: "They are monuments of our language... | |
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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... 
