 The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 330by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Harper & Brothers - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1855 - 226 pages
...of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, $1 75 ; Half Calf, $2 75. Considered merely ns a composition, it deserves to be classed among the...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract can give a just notion. So sad... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 pages
...Journals of LORD BYRON ; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...government dc this—the people will assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON. 4 [EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1831.] WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear/and manly; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...d* tbis — the people will assuredly lu ihe rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.' [EoiNBCEQH lUvibV.', 1831.] WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single paslage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...d*v this — the people will assuredly .lo the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.' [EDINBURGH REVIEW, chinson. The date of the marriagf is not exactly known. But rises into eloquence, rises without tfforl or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...enrolled, was glorified by a yet greater and holier name. MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* ( Edinburgh Review, June 1831.) WE have read this book with the greatest...style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single pasgage equal to two or three which we could select from the...style is agreeable, clear, and manly ¡ and when it rises into eloquence, rises without tflbrt or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...Journals of Lord Byron ; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOOHE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...Journals of Lord Byron ; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOOEE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 722 pages
...of the Original Edition. With Twelve Full-Page Illustrations. Thick i2mo, cloth, 1060 pages, $3 oo " We have read this book -with the greatest pleasure....English prose which our age has produced, . . . It has evidently been written^ not for the Purpose of showing — what, however, it often shows — how... | |
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