 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. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 320por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...unto the writer of it as wi? have done unto Mr. Robert Montgomery. * LIFE AND POETRY OF LORD BYRON, f We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves lo be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Il contains, indeed,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 páginas
...we have done Untolttr. Robert Montgomery. * LIFE AND POETRY OF LORD BYRON, -jWe have read this beok with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the bcst specimens ol English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 754 páginas
...same chapel with those of Sobieski. From the Edinburgh Review. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LORD BYRON.» WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....single passage equal to two or three, which we could • I tetters nnd Journals of Lord Hymn : with Notices of Itis 1/ife. Hv Thomas Mooru, Esq. '¿ vols.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...Journals of Lord Byron ; with Notices of hit Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered...select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1850 - 412 páginas
...Journals of Lord Byron; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4U>. London: 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...this—the people will assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON." [EDINBURGH REVIEY.-, 1831.] W« have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered...select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and when it rises... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 páginas
...English prose. " Considered merely as a composition," says Mr. Macaulay, speaking of the Life of 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 it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or... | |
 | Harper & Brothers - 1855 - 226 páginas
...Lord Byron, With Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, $1 75 ; Half Calf, $2 75. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. Of the deep and painful interest which this book excites, no abstract can give a just notion. So sad... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 páginas
...Journals of LORD BYRON ; with Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 páginas
...glorified by a yet greater and holier name. MOORE'S LIFE OF LORu BYRON.* ( Edinburgh Review, June 1831.) WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure....select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it ristu... | |
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