 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 500 páginas
...the English language. They ab with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke pink insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff gorgeous embroidery."— Macmilay. t According to Voltaire, " Milton, as he was traveling In Italy,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 páginas
...with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They...in the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 páginas
...which the finest deelamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of eloth d, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, hia controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 448 páginas
...with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of ' Paradise Lost' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They are a perfect Field of the Cloth of Gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery....even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 páginas
...mortified who can?" Such are some of those cogent passages to which Maciiulay must refer when he says, " Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent." There was everything in the nature of the author and in the peculiar cast of the age to lead to this... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...passages compared with which the finest declamations' of Burke sink into insignificance. They are .v dy in these days does understand French; and though there may be some disgrace in oí the "Paradise Lost" has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in... | |
 | Robert Gibbs - 1888 - 442 páginas
...power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declarations of Burke sink into insignificance ; they are a perfect...even in the earlier books of the ' Paradise Lost' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | George M. Stone - 1890 - 208 páginas
...fascinated by simply hearing its chapters read. Macaulay says of the prose writings of Milton : '' They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." All sublime images of previous revelations gather in this book of the last things, making its style... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 páginas
...with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest is he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
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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... 
