 | Katherine Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 652 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed ; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity, are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 572 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his composition! are unsurpassed ; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models...execution may challenge comparison with any which the preaent century has produced ; nor can we hesitate to regard it as a very valuable instrument for the... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1868 - 458 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed ; and his 'sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models...national mind, and the elevation of the national taste." — Morn ing Post. BUCKLAND'S (FRANK) CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY, ist Series. Rats, Snakes, Serpents,... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1868 - 472 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models...to regard it as a very valuable instrument for the iiialrucUun of the national mind, and the <•U•vullun of the national taste." — Morning I'ost.... | |
 | George Wrottesley - Mariscals - 1873 - 538 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed ; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Sophie Marie Voss (Gräfin von) - Prussia (Germany) - 1876 - 318 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed ; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Spain - 1877 - 442 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions arc unsurpassed : and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1877 - 400 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed : and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt Drake - Jerusalem - 1877 - 392 pages
...purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed '• and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. It is the result of great research and profound... | |
 | Max Duncker - Greece - 1886 - 524 pages
...clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed ; and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of antiquity are models of refined taste and sound criticism. We esteem very highly the value of a work like this. 1t is the result of great research and profound... | |
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Professor Browne is not only a classical scholar, but one of the most graceful of English modern writers. In clearness, purity, and elegance of style, his compositions are unsurpassed '• and his sketches of the lives and works of the great authors of... 
