 MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. "The merits of *Les Miserables' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.  The London Quarterly Review - Page 1611862Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...the leading idea which forms as it were the trunk-line of the work. But the merits of Les Misdrables do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...French literature which can even be compared with suchi chapters as those entitled ' Le dedans du desespoir,' * L'onde et i'ombre,' and ' Petit Gervais,'... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Opera - 1862 - 360 pages
...MISERABLES. BY VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. " The merits of ' Les Misurables ' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...page after page, with details of unequalled beauty. In dealing with all the emotions, doubts, fears, which go to make up our common humanity, M. Victor... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...the leading idea which forms as it were the trunk-line of the work. But the merits of Les Misi'rables do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beaut y. We feel bound to say that we know of nothing in the whole compass of French literature which... | |
 | Annie Edwards - 1863 - 276 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " ' Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Vicissitudes - 1863 - 320 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of Les Mise'rables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1863 - 330 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. '' ' Lcs Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and tlie loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review, " • Les Misfirables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1863 - 366 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist,...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables - is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Anna D'Almeida - East Asia - 1863 - 330 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist But the merits of Les Mise'rables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. *• ' Les Mise'rables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
 | Frederick William Robinson - 1863 - 344 pages
...every page the hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a true artist But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist...page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. 11 ' Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal... | |
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