 | George M. Stone - 1890 - 208 pagina’s
...simply hearing its chapters read. Macaulay says of the prose writings of Milton : '' They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." All sublime images of previous revelations gather in this book of the last things, making its style... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pagina’s
...passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect nd great numbers of the IUx ** English fell into the...conquerors. The Nabob seated himself with regal pomp in th he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 104 pagina’s
...which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of J0 cioth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery....even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Richard Chappell Parsons - 1892 - 310 pagina’s
...are a perfect field of cloth of gold. Not even in the earlier books of the " Paradise Lost " has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works, in which his feelings find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 222 pagina’s
...passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous...earlier books of the " Paradise Lost " has the great 5 poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 pagina’s
...passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous...earlier books of the " Paradise Lost " has the great 5 poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 pagina’s
...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. 4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. 5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even...those parts of his controversial works in which his 1 The first edition adds : " He ridiculed the Eikon." See Introduction, 16. ' In bis Tractate : Of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pagina’s
...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. 4 They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. 5 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even...those parts of his controversial works in which his 1 The first edition adds : " He ridiculed the EiJeon." See Introduction, 16. ' In his Tractate : Of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pagina’s
...finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. i They are a perfect field of cloth of gold.3 The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even...those parts of his controversial works in which his 1 The first edition adds : " He ridiculed the Kikon." See Introduction, 16. 2 In his Tractate : Of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 122 pagina’s
...passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous...higher than in those parts of his controversial works 5 in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in . bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture.... | |
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... 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 compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.... 
