 | 1904 - 738 páginas
...something from the man whom they admit to be an eminent authority: " Consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven...the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to gentle and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians;... | |
 | 1880 - 506 páginas
...for the king and the subject, for the magistrate and the citizen. There is no book that has been so woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history ; and there is no book that has been so worked into all that is purest and grandest of human literature.... | |
 | 1911 - 856 páginas
...Huxley in the "Contemporary Reriew" for December 1870: Consider (he says) the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven...that it has become the national epic of Britain, and Ls familiar to noble and simple from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once... | |
 | 1871 - 474 páginas
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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 870 páginas
...Huxley in the ' Contemporary Review ' for December 1870 : Consider (he gays) the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven...it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1901 - 1076 páginas
...residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that for three centurio this book has been woven into the life of all that...Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from John o1 Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once to Italians ; that it is written... | |
 | 1927 - 586 páginas
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 | 1911 - 1122 páginas
...standpoint, that the great scientist Huxley wrote in the following words : Consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is noblest and best in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain ; that it is... | |
 | 1871 - 674 páginas
...literature a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven...it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple, from John-o'-Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once... | |
 | J. J. Smith - 1871 - 302 páginas
...still remains a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven...that is best and noblest in English history; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form... | |
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And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from... 
