 | James Payn - 1878 - 350 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our nge has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult t» name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.'' — MACAULAV,... | |
 | Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr - Country life - 1878 - 362 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best spccimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a booh which exhibits more hindness, fairness, and modesty" — MACAULAV,... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1878 - 380 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It woultl be difficult to name a book which exhibits mart kindness, fairness, and modesty." Y, in the... | |
 | Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett - 1878 - 530 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, /airnese, and modesty" — MACAULAV,... | |
 | 1879 - 786 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and. when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a booh which exhibits more hindness, fairness, and modesty." — MACAULAV.... | |
 | Bret Harte - American fiction - 1879 - 364 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly \ and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a booh which exhibits more hindness, fairness, and Modesty." — MACAULAY,... | |
 | William Wilkie Collins - 1879 - 318 pages
...deserves to be classed among the lest specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a book tvhich exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. ' ' —MACAULAV.... | |
 | Albany de Grenier Fonblanque - 1879 - 344 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced, . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It would be difficult to name a booh which exhibits more hindness, fairness, and modesty." — MACAULAV.... | |
 | James Payn - 1879 - 360 pages
...deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and when...into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. It mould be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.** — MACAULAY,... | |
| |
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. 
