| 1827 - 684 pagine
...exertion so different as poetry and prose. It is the remark of a modern critic, that his prose writings abound with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. So we think and feel. It is an immortal honor that he advanced far beyond the knowledge or the views... | |
| 1835 - 932 pagine
...— '" Nitor in adversum ; nee me, qui cetera, vinoit Impetus, et rápido contrai ins cvchor orbi." U is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, IK? so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pagine
...fertility, ' Nitor in adversum ; nee me, qui cretera, vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton...sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of clojh of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagine
...Latin idiom in -the construction of lus senti-пси. ' It is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our...time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve tin. attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language.... | |
| 1872 - 500 pagine
...sein in Betracht. 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 (hat there should be so many proofs of the narrowness and selfishness... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagine
...Latin idiom in the construction of hi« sentence». ' It is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, tuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls...So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, »Hh which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of doth... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pagine
...the Latin idiom in the construction of his sentences. ' It is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, + fitld of cloth of golil. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books... | |
| 1849 - 818 pagine
...colossal dimensions, but for it> matchless and imperishable beauty. ' It is to be regretted, says he, ' that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time,...full power of the English language. They abound with passage, compared with which, the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a... | |
| 1856 - 666 pagine
...Macauley thus speaks of them : " As compositions they deserve the attention of every man who would become acquainted with the full power of the English...They abound with passages compared with which the most splendid declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field-cloth of gold... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pagine
...idiom in the construction of his sentences. Yet a recent critic in the Edinburgh Renew remarks, that ' it is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They arc a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
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