 | 1827 - 684 pages
...exertion so different as poetry and prose. It is the remark of a modern critic, that his prose writings abound with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. So we think and feel. It is an immortal honor that he advanced far beyond the knowledge or the views... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...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,...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stilt with gorgeous embroidery. Not oven in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...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,...books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher th/in in those parts of his controversial works, in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...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,...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of clojh of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...compositions, they deserve tin. attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages,...compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink inf1 insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth et gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of thn Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared »Hh oid ; ' hœret lateri lethalis arando' — [' the deadly arrow sticks fast in their side'] ; doth of golí The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...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,...Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect fitld of cloth of golil. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
..." As compositions they deserve the attention of every man who would become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the most splendid declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field-cloth of gold... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passage, compared with which, the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a perfect field of cloth of gold. Tie style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
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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... 
