 Of the persons who read the first canto, not one in ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the  The Calcutta University Calendar - Стр. clxixавторы: University of Calcutta - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - Страниц: 514
...ever reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. " Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast." And the uncongenial critic doubts whether, if the last six books (said to have been destroyed in Ireland)... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 556
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the " Blatent Beast." If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - Страниц: 264
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - Страниц: 328
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death •of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - Страниц: 508
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - Страниц: 506
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - Страниц: 768
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - Страниц: 734
...all the Muses' mysteries." The majority of readers are not so patient. " Very few," says Macaulay, " and very weary, are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast." Many, who revel in parts and passages, cannot read the book as a whole. The best way for the reader... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - Страниц: 522
...— • Bible. 'A man severe he was.' — GOLDSMITH. ' Too severe was the solitude.' — WILSON. ' Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death." — MACAULAY. ' Comely the creature is.' — KINGLAKB. ' Deep though the causes of thankfulness must... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - Страниц: 772
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. of it. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
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