 MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. "The merits of *Les Miserables' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.  Number Seventeen: A Novel - Page 14by Henry Kingsley - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1862 - 628 pages
...everywhere been shown respecting the leading idea which forms as it were the trunk-line of the work. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist...page after page, with details of unequalled beauty. We feel bound to say that we know of nothing in the whole compass of French literature which can even... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...the leading idea which forms as it were the trunk-line of the work. But the merits of Les Misdrables do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...page after page, with details of unequalled beauty. We feel bound to say that we know of nothing in the whole compass of French literature which can even... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Opera - 1862 - 360 pages
...MISERABLES. BY VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. " The merits of ' Les Misurables ' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...page after page, with details of unequalled beauty. In dealing with all the emotions, doubts, fears, which go to make up our common humanity, M. Victor... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...the leading idea which forms as it were the trunk-line of the work. But the merits of Les Misi'rables do not merely consist in the conception of it as a...abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beaut y. We feel bound to say that we know of nothing in the whole compass of French literature which... | |
 | Anna D'Almeida - East Asia - 1863 - 330 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. *• ' Les Mise'rables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - France - 1863 - 406 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeua to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity ; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition to... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1863 - 366 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables - is one of those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition to... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1863 - 330 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity ; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. '' ' Lcs Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition... | |
 | Vicissitudes - 1863 - 320 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity ; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition to... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1863 - 330 pages
...compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of a distant posterity ; that in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts,...details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review, " ' Les Miserablea ' is one oi those rare works which have a strong personal interest in addition to... | |
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