 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...  The Massachusetts Teacher - Page 1231869Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...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 pages
...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...sink into insignificance. They arc a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stilt with gorgeous embroidery. Not oven in the earlier books of the Paradise... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...our part, necessary. " It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...contrarius evehor orbi.' It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...contrariiu evehor orbi. It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...declamations of Burke, sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve tin. l 8L H g ȷ ¨ | 97 inf1 insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth et gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...(1608-1674.) ["!T id to be regretted," says Macaulay, "that the prose writings of MILTON should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the...declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...contnrius erehor orbl." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, very thing to the hazard, and gave orders that all...up its quarters in a grove of mangotrees near Plass are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve (lie are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...is to be regretted,' says a modern critic, 'that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, o go ; Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The...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... | |
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