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...Macaulay could say : " They abound with passages compared with \vliich the finest declamations of IJurke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field...is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the eavlicr books of the ' Paradise Lost ' has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...

...whole of the ¿Eneid about once a year. Macaulay, in speaking of Milton's prose, says : " It deserves the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language." But Milton is especially distinguished for his intimate acquaintance with the languages in which Cicero...

...than Lord Macaulay, in his celebrated Essay on Milton. ' It is to be regretted,' he says, ' that tbe. prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so...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...

...this fact than Lord Macaulay, in his celebrated Essay on Milton. ' It is to be regretted,' he says, ' that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...They abound with passages compared with which the fmest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The...

...adversum ; nee me, qui ceetera, 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 the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works...

...the English language. The eulogy which Macaulay bestows on his prose generally, that " it abounds in passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance," is at least not extravagant here. Next year (1645) he published the first collected edition of his...

...of the Kngli^h language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest dpclumaticms <>l Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style Is stiff with gorgeoiu embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen...

...Nach allen diesen Verben steht immer should, selten der Indicativ. Regret I, 58: It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. III, 146: We should not then regret that there should be so many proofs of the narrowness and selfishness...

...Nach allen diesen Verben steht immer should, selten der Indicativ. Regret I, 58: It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. HI, 146: We should not then regret that there should be so many proofs of the narrowness and selfishness...