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... Life and Times of John Milton - Page 6by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 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
...admiration of our readers, to render any words of praise, on our part, necessary. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...adversum; nee me, qui csetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works, in which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...adversum ; nee me, qui cretera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...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
...adversum ; nee me, qni cictera, vim-it Impetus, «t rapido contrariiu evehor orbi. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Latin idiom in -the construction of lus senti-пси. ' It is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our...time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve 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
...our pains for our crowns shall be less. MILTON. (1608-1674.) ["!T id to be regretted," says Macaulay, "that the prose writings of MILTON should, in our...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
...adverwim ; n./i me, qul cetera, rinclt Impetus, el rapid* contnrius erehor orbl." It is to be regretted ton Macaulay Macaulay the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which... | |
| |