 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
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Latin. — HAZLITT, WILLIAM, 1821-2, On the Prose Style of Poets, Table-Talk. 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... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 768 pages
...critics, Macaulay assigns Milton's prose writings to the highest rank of English composition. Said he: " They abound with passages compared with which the...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... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - English language - 1911 - 338 pages
...sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move. — LOWELL. 6. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. — MACAULAY. 7. And close behind her stood Eight daughters of the plow, stronger than men, Huge women... | |
 | Charles Morris - Biography - 1911 - 618 pages
...to be paid after the sale of thirteen hundred copies. Of his writings in prose Lord Macaulay says: "They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." Died 1674. Mirabeau, de, Honoré Gabriel de Kiquetti, COMTE, a French orator and statesman, the son... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY. — Essay on Lord Bacon. THE PROSE WRITINGS OF MILTON 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 the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - English language - 1912 - 360 pages
...sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move. — LOWELL. 6. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. — MACAULAY. 7. And close behind her stood Eight daughters of the plow, stronger than men, Huge women... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...adversum ; nee me, qui csetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido oontrarius 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 the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 pages
...et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." ° It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Mil- 10 ton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions,...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works... | |
 | Cornelia Carhart Ward - English language - 1914 - 448 pages
...Mediterranean. 41. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should be so little read. . . . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. 42. We wish that in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to... | |
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