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... Shaw's New History of English Literature - Sivu 151tekijä(t) Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 404 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 sivua
...regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, thty deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become...language. They abound with passages compared with which^he finest declamations of Burkesink in to insignificance. They are a perfect field wf elolb of... | |
| David Masson - 1860 - 282 sivua
...contrarius evehor orbi." 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...gold. The 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 sivua
...regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read<As compositions, thty deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become...gold. The 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 sivua
...should, in our time, be so little read. As com positions, they deserve the attention of every man win wishes to become acquainted with the full power of...passages compared with which the finest declamations ot Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 sivua
...should, in our time, be so little read. As com positions, they deserve the attention of every man whs wishes to become acquainted with the full power of...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.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 sivua
...regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, thty and arbitrary system, Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of... | |
| James Pycroft - 1861 - 340 sivua
...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... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 sivua
...REV. S. MANNING. " It is to he regretted that the prose writings.of Milton should in our time be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention...perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff" with embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of Paradise Lost has the great poet risen higherjU»fnr1zrt4ujse... | |
| 1865 - 782 sivua
...St. Paul's writings, as if it lightened from one end of heaven to the other." Macaulay says : — " They deserve the attention of every man who wishes...insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold." We had purposed to write an analytical outline of this most splendid treatise, but our hmits forbid,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 sivua
...less magnificent domain."— Brylgn "The prose writings of Milton deserve the attention of every msn who wishes to become acquainted with the full power...English language. They abound with passages compared wltt winch the floeit declamations or Burke sink Into Insignificance."—.* utorrrtT and eventful times... | |
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