 | 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
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...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... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...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... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...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
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of thn Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English close of a toilsome day's march, the army, long after...quarters in a grove of mangotrees near Plassey, within the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...deserve (lie attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English ln the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial... | |
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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... 
