We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in... A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 461by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 700 pages
...the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language....at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But that lower kind of imagination which... | |
| England - 1856 - 834 pages
...sounding now like a prophecy of his own fame. "A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language....at the circulating libraries than the last novel." What our historian thus said of Mackintosh, his illustrious friend and predecessor, has come true to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language....at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But .the lower kind of imagination which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...the vivacity and the colouring of Sou they. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language....at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But that lower kind of imagination which... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - International law - 1843 - 108 pages
...the vivacity and the coloring of Southey. A History of England, written throughout, in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language;...at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Almost all the distinguished writers, who have treated of English history, are advocates. Mr. Hallam... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 370 pages
...the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulatirg libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination.... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...through his imaginary plan, " written in this manner, would be the most fascinating book of the age. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel." A fleeting shadow of this coming event to be realized so gratifyingly in his own case, doubtless prompted... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...through his imaginary plan, " written in this manner, would be the most fascinating book of the age. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel." A fleeting shadow of this coming event to be realized so gratifyingly in his own case, doubtless prompted... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...the colouring of Southev. A hislorv of England, written througnout in tms manner, wou.d be the mam fascinating book in the language. It would be more...at the circulating libraries than the last novel. lAr James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But the lower kind of imagination which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language....at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But that lower kind of imagination which... | |
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