 The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty.  The Life and Campaigns of General Lee - Página 7por Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 336 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1831 - 738 páginas
...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age baa produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal...eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more 01 kindness,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 páginas
...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,...style is agreeable, clear, and manly ; and, when it rires into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner.... | |
 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...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...eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more of kindness,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...have read this book with the greatest plaa.Mire. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be grotesque, may be the appearance which Dante undertakes...sound, the smell, the taste: he counts the numbers; he tffort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...hare read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be o l «ffort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 páginas
...Considered merely as a composition," says Mr. Macaulay, speaking of the Life of Byron, "it 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 it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or... | |
 | Harper & Brothers - 1855 - 226 páginas
...vols. 12mo, Muslin, $1 75 ; Half Calf, $2 75. Considered merely ns a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 páginas
...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...eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...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...immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear/and manly; and when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the... | |
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