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... Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 72by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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
...contrai ins cvchor orbi." U is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, IK? so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...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
...words of praise, on our part, necessary. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...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
...Impetus, «t rapido contrariiu evehor orbi. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...lus senti-пси. ' It is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton U contrasted with the irresolute, sensitive, tin. attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language.... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...less. MILTON. (1608-1674.) ["!T id to be regretted," says Macaulay, "that the prose writings of MILTON should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...Impetus, el rapid* contnrius erehor orbl." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton k determined to put every thing to the hazard, and...quarters in a grove of mangotrees near Plassey, within he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve (lie he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
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