 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...  The Publishers Weekly - Sayfa 491875Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1831 - 738 sayfa
...Life. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 2 vols. 4to. London : 1830. have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...the best specimens of English prose which our age baa produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three, which we could select from... | |
 | 1835 - 932 sayfa
...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, no single passage equal lo two or three which we could select from the Life of... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 sayfa
...MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [Edinburgh Review, 1831.] WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three, which we could select from the Life of Sheridan.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 sayfa
...greater part of these volumes, consists of extracts from the Letters and Journals of Lord Byron ; and it is difficult to speak too highly of the skill which has been shown in the selection and arrangement. We will not say that we have not occasionally remarked in these two large quartos an anecdote which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 sayfa
...LIFE OF LORD BYRON.* [EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1S31.J WK have read this book with the greatest plaa.Mire. contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 sayfa
...assuredly do the rest MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.' WE hare read this book with the greatest pleasure. contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan.... | |
 | 1852 - 588 sayfa
...principles of the church, that it must commend itself to the thoughtful consideration of every sect. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...classed among the best specimens of English prose from living writers. Its style is vigorous, chaste, and nervous, occasionally rising into eloquence... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 sayfa
...English prose. " Considered merely as a composition," says Mr. Macaulay, speaking of the Life of Byron, The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or... | |
 | Harper & Brothers - 1855 - 226 sayfa
...of his Life. By THOMAS MOORE. 2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, $1 75 ; Half Calf, $2 75. Considered merely ns a composition, it deserves to be classed among the...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... | |
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