 | Frederick William Robinson - 1862 - 354 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Mise"rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life, and simplicity.... | |
 | Victor Marie Hugo - 1862 - 432 pages
...truly great man, hut it is his great and tavourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the (acuity, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing beautiful as well as striking... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...great man, but it is his great and favourite •work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful T>oetlcal power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1862 - 456 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work— the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...century who is entitled to be considered as a man of geuius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist... | |
 | Anna D'Almeida - East Asia - 1863 - 330 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work— the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise'rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life, and simplicity.... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - Crime - 1863 - 330 pages
...truly great man, but It is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Miserables.' The story Is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life, and simplicity.... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1863 - 330 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise'rables,' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life, and simplicity.... | |
 | Frederick William Robinson - Criminals - 1863 - 332 pages
...truly gre^t man, but it is his great and lavourite work — the fruit of years ot thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Any one who rea is the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Miserables.' The story is admirable, and is put together... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1863 - 366 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Any one who reaJs the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mis6rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1863 - 360 pages
...truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative...deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Any one who rea.ls the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Miserables.' The story is admirable, and is put together... | |
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It is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and... 
