Fair in the fearless old fashion, Volume 2Samuel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand, 1875 |
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Pagina 255 - ... descriptive power, in startling— not to say extravagant suggestions in lofty and delicate moral sympathies. It is difficult to read it with a serious countenance : yet it is impossible not to read it with curious interest, and sometimes with profound admiration. The author's imagination hath run mad, but often there is more in his philosophy than the world ma-y dream of We have read his work with almost equal feelings of pleasure, wonderment, and amusement, and this, we think, will be the feelings...
Pagina 255 - Here is a work in certain respects one of the most singular in modern literature, which surpasses all of its class in bold and luxuriant imagination, in vivid descriptive power, in startling — not to say extravagant suggestions — in lofty and delicate moral sympathies. It is difficult to read it with a serious countenance : yet it is impossible not to read it with curious interest, and sometimes with profound admiration.