 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 - Page 491875Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 738 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...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 - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...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.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...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.... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | Harper & Brothers - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1855 - 226 pages
...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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