 | Theology - 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, IK? so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become...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 - English essays - 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 to become...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 - English essays - 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 to become...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 - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve tin. l 8L H g ȷ ¨ | 97 inf1 insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth et gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 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 to become...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 - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they o say, The breath goes now — and some say, no ;...So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, »Hh which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of doth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they x 6 5 fitld of cloth of golil. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...he, ' 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...full power of the English language. They abound with passage, compared with which, the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...Macauley thus speaks of them : " As compositions they deserve the attention of every man who would become acquainted with the full power of the English...They abound with passages compared with which the most splendid declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field-cloth of gold... | |
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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... 
