... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery.... The Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 60by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...style is stilt with gorgeous embroidery. Not oven in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at these performances,... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher th/in in those parts of his controversial works, in which...intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...style is stiff/ with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at their performances, to analyse the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he rst her nuptial bed, And hcav'nly choirs the hymenacon...gifts, and, Ü too like In sad event, when to the 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Benson of Church Government... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in the bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of thn Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' "] Milton's Account of the manner in which the idea of writing some great Religious Poem originated... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he wards, he said that he had never called but one council...never have been, masters of Bengal. But scarcely * Sonnet to Cromwell. t Tk< Reason of Church Government urjea against Prelacy, Book II. We had intended... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lflrt has he ever risen higher than in those part» of hi» ch the 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Reason of Church Government... | |
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