...to repeat — was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript, — ' The more I think the less I can conceive where you picked up that style.'" As to the appearance of the rising author, his nephew tells us it was never better described than in...

...valued most the short sentences with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his first manuscript, "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." • Of the early founders of the Review it cannot be said that Jeffrey himself, or Brougham, or Sydney Smith,...

...staff of the Quarterly." The veteran Jeffrey, in acknowledging the receipt of the manuscript, wrote, " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." This Essay was Macaulay's introduction to a large society, the aristocracy of politics and of letters....

...is inborn in him." * Already, at four and twenty, Macaulay was incontestably the first rhptorician of an age fertile in literary genius. Well might Jeffrey...unbecoming and superfluous for us to speak. Though he rearded them as fugitive productions, they ave taken a prominent place in literature, and we know not...

...known to repeat, — was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript : " The more I think the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." Macaulay's outward man was never better described than in two sentences of Praed's Introduction to...

...Edinburgh Review was the only commendation on his literary talent which he was ever known to repeat : "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." It would be impossible in a review July, 1876. of Macaulay's life and works, howover brief, which is...

...known to repeat, — was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript : " The more I think the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." Macaulay's outward man was never better described than in two sentences of Praed's Introduction to...

...natural pride ; nor less when Lord Jeffrey, in acknowledging the receipt of his manuscript, said, " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that Btyle." Ho was a mighty bookman, and when on circuit one night he was seen going vip to bed with a...

...known to repeat, — was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript : ''The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." ' And already, in the ' Essay on Milton,' the style of Macaulay is, indeed, that which we know so well....

...known to repeat, — was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript : " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." ' And already, in the ' Essay on Milton,' the style of Macaulay is, indeed, that which we know so well....