... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... The American Review of Reviews - Page 94edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...style is stilt with gorgeous embroidery. Not oven in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...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...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, ' a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...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...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, ' a seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher th/in in those parts of his controversial works, in which...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, ' a seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he rst her nuptial bed, And hcav'nly choirs the hymenacon...in naked beauty mort; adorn 'd, More lovely than Pa It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies."... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...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...his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in the bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, ' a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he wards, he said that he had never called but one council...council, the British would never have been, masters of It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.*!"... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lflrt has he ever risen higher than in those part» of hi» ch the It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies."... | |
| 1849 - 818 pages
...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...a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of Hallelujahs and harping symphonies... | |
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