 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single pasgage equal to two or three which we could select from the...¡ and when it rises into eloquence, rises without tflbrt 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 - 1866 - 510 pages
...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 wliich we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 pages
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best spectmens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difftcult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1874 - 518 pages
...composition, it deserfes to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be dimcult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. It has evidently been written,... | |
 | Harry Cholmondeley- Pennell - 1874 - 302 pages
...composit,on, it deserves to be classed among the best spec,mens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentat,on. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book wh'ch exhibits... | |
 | Elizabeth Lynn Linton - English fiction - 1874 - 360 pages
...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...but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that worh. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | George Chapman - 1874 - 620 pages
...a composinon, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...from the Life of Sheridan ; but, as a whole, it is jm measurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1874 - 404 pages
...could select from the Life of Sheridan ; out, as a whole, it is jnuneasurably superior to that worh. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when...effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior i0 the manner. It would be difficult to name a booh which exhibits more hindness, fairness, and modesty.... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1874 - 404 pages
...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...three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan ; out, as a whole, it is .immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly,... | |
 | Henry Sampson - Advertising - 1874 - 716 pages
...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 we cfluld select from the Life of Sheridan ; but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work.... | |
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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. 
