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" ... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... "
The Works of Lord Macaulay - Página 60
por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898
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The Juvenile instructor and companion, Volumen30

Young people - 1879 - 348 páginas
...The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' " One of Milton's prose works, " A Treatise on Christian Doctrine " was unknown until 1823, when it...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of bis controversial works in which his feeling?, appeared together in a volume, Lond., 1749, 8vo. Pope...King than the author intended. A collective edition — Lonn MACAITLAV: Edín. Лег., xlüi. 345, and in his Essays. "His prose writings are disagreeable,...
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. JNrot even in the earlier books of the Paradise .' Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'''] I.-BOOKS NOT DEAD THINGS. i. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment, in the church and commonwealth,...
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Education, Volumen30

1910 - 756 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...conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture. It is to borrow his own majestic language, ' A sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumen1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 páginas
...The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelimrs, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 páginas
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has he human nature, as it received its due at the second-hand. Neither had the fame of hunts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, 'a sevenfold chorus...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumen1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts...symphonies." We had intended to look more closely at these performat les, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and ..., Volumen2

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1882 - 1192 páginas
...The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in tho earlier books of the Paradise LiMt has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works In which his f«elin -. excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rupture. " It is. to...
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Lord Macaulay, Essayist and Historian

Albert Stratford George Canning - 1882 - 300 páginas
...hardly any allusion to Milton's Irish policy, actually writes that ' nowhere does the great poet rise higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his spirits are excited by conflict,' &c. (p. 57). It is in these very passages of religious or political...
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