...ten books, was afterwards so divided as to make twelve. Its composition, * " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should in our time...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." — ifaeaulay. though the work was doubtless meditated long before, occupied about seven years, —...

...; nee me, qui caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.3 90. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold.5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery....

...nee ine, qui catera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." J 20 ^ It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...language. They abound with passages compared with which 25 the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of...

...; nec me, qui caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." 30 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...

...Impetus, 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...

...adversum ; nee me, qui caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...become acquainted with the full power of the English language./They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into...

...nee me, qui-caetera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." § 91. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of 20 cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the...

...adversum; neo me, qui csetera, vincit 20 Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...every man who wishes to become acquainted with the 25 full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations...

...English divines of the middle of the seventeenth century? 2. Of whose prose writings was it said, " They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery " ? By whom was it said ? V. — FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE DEATH OF POPE, 1660-1744. 1. General survey...

...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 the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...