 | 1825 - 574 sider
...few faults, should have made two volumes so utterly worthless as to defy all criticism. The worst and the best that can be said of them is, that they are good for nothing. They contain four tales, professing to be pictures of English Life. If they be really... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 sider
...is difficult to pronounce whether they savour more of the age of the poet, or of the poet's old age. The best that can be said of them is, that they are very odd, at all events, and might afford subjects for much interesting speculation to the Society... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 sider
...is difficult to pronounce whether they savour more of the age of the poet, or of the poet's old age. The best that can be said of them is, that they are very odd, at all events, and might afford subjects for much interesting speculation to the Society... | |
 | Richard Chenevix - 1832 - 608 sider
...and consist more in happy perceptions than in reasonings ; in verbal felicities than in thought ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are extremely clever. The letters of Madame de Sevigm• stand very prominent among these works, and are... | |
 | William Swainson - 1834 - 476 sider
...of the best artists then to be met with in France : they are very inferior to those of Edwards ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are recognisable. That they even still continue to be essential for purposes of reference, is entirely... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 sider
...Ionic columns, without a single touch of originality or genial feeling in any one of the buildings. The best that can be said of them is that they are a degree less miserably bald than those of Laing. encouragement from professional men, while one that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1845 - 534 sider
...elephant is ! " " How majestic the lion I" And very likely — when they are at liberty ! As prisoners, the best that can be said of them is, that they are re- j markabiy disagreeable. As for the elephant, his want of symmetry renders him hideous. One animal,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 536 sider
...the obligations of life to sit cross legged, and muse silent and alone? Who has ever seen them, as they pretend, ascend the western heaven, or take their...their religion, which is as unsound and corrupt as the others — chatter-chattering about heaven and earth and things without either shadow or substance,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1849 - 250 sider
...Rosycrucians and Gnosticks, they profess to a knowledge of things beyond what plain Scripture reveals. The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own Fancies, and the victims of distempered Brains, and ill habits of Bodie. Then... | |
 | 1853 - 776 sider
...darea hardly call his soul his own. The soldiers and sailors are serfs —they are not men. Perhaps the best that can be said of them is, that they are machines — machines for turning sour-trout into human nature. They are all — those forty or fifty... | |
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The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body. 
