 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...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 51840Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field o[ cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 pages
...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 Ihe English language. They abound with passages, compared with which the finest ¡eelamations of Burke... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...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...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
...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...Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect fidd rf d(tfh of ^ The ^ .g ^ gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...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...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 feelings,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1843 - 720 pages
...critic, * 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...insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth uf gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve tin. attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted...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
...Macaulay, "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...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
...critic, • that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, 1* so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes...with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier book« of the Paradise Loit has he ever risen higher than in those parts of hi« controversial works... | |
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