 | 1831 - 738 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age baa produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more 01 kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...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,...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 essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...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,...is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more of kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...greatest plaa.Mire. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens which Dante undertakes to describe, he never shrinks...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
...greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens ёy Qm" q )з ̛ 0 Y } F / \ 1 8 Q +, T Jo W ~ .1g... Cq 2 { & b7! o d 6y8Hl bw *mG { {< M =k 9 9j p U) the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens «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 - 1856 - 128 pages
...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,...is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...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,...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... | |
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The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. 
