 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 154 pages
...; nee me, qui csetera, vinoit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.* 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.... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - Christianity - 1916 - 312 pages
...reminded that I am here repeating a lament voiced ninety years ago by Macaulay: "It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth-of-gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...the freedom of printing was limited ; opposed by Milton In the Areopafitica. v It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should in our time...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth-of-gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...everything else avail against me, as I am borne out against the revolving sphere." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should in our time...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth-of-gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 pages
...adversum; nec 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 works... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Best books - 1924 - 458 pages
...modern works, has caught life from the breath of the antique spirit. — James Russell Lowell. serve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language." David Masson's "Life of John Milton," already mentioned in this book, is the standard biography. But... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1927 - 658 pages
...whose name I first mentioned in connection with Lord Clive, says of Milton's controversial prose works: "As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the füll power of the English language. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff... | |
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