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
| Joseph Strutt - 1876 - 728 sayfa
...Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, js. n,/. "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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| William Wilkie Collins - 1876 - 352 sayfa
...full-pag« Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d. "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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| Joseph Ashby-Sterry - 1876 - 270 sayfa
...one thick Volume, with Twelve full-page Plates. " We have read this look with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, ciear, and manly, and, whin it rises into eloquence, it rises without... | |
| Sir John Davies - 1876 - 312 sayfa
...Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7*. &/. *' 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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 420 sayfa
...One thick Volume, with Twelve full-page Pktes. " 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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| Westland Marston - 1876 - 434 sayfa
...One thick Volume, with Twelve full-page Plates. " We have read this book uith the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...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... | |
| Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 440 sayfa
...Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, js. 6W. " 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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 304 sayfa
...Plates. Crown 8v<>, cloth extra, gilt, 7*. 6d. " 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. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1876 - 426 sayfa
...full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7$. 6d. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...classed among the best specimens of English prose which pur age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence,... | |
| Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876 - 632 sayfa
...full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7*. 6W, "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to...classed among the best specimens of English prose which pur age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and. when it rises into eloquence,... | |
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