 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the bcst specimens ol English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and, when it rires into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Il contains, indeed, no single passage equal lo two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan. Bui, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior lo thai work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has , he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us...sound, the smell, the taste: he counts the numbers; he tffort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior U) the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has * * «ffort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...Byron, "it deserves to be classed .among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation." This is high praise for a writer whose most conspicuous excellence lay in another and totally different... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear/and manly; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single paslage equal to two or three which we could select from the...superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and man ly ; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has rs probably remember what Mrs. Hutchinson tells us...softness when she relates how her beloved Colonel " tfforl or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it ristu into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is tho matter inferior to the manner.... | |
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WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. 
