...it at once arrested the attention of the public. Jeffrey, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, wrote: "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." Murray, the publisher, declared that it would be worth the copyright of Byron's " Childe Harold " to...

...contributions to the Edinburgh Review, the first of which, on "Milton," drew from Lord Jeffrey the remark, " The more I think the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." Perhaps Macaulay's essays have been more popular even than his history. The extraordinary knowledge...

...truthful, simple, independent, noble." Jeffrey, in acknowledging his manuscript of "Milton," said, "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." "With the essay on Milton," says Matthew Arnold, "began Macaulay's literary career, and, brilliant...

...editor, Lord Jeffrey, in acknowledging the receipt of the manuscript, wrote to his new contributor, ' ' The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." That celebrated style — about which so much has since been written — was an index to the mental...

...the event, for upon receipt of the first manuscript he wrote to its author the words so often quoted: "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked np that style." Thus early was the finger of criticism pointed toward the one thing that has always...

...sent his essay on Milton to the 'Edinburgh Review,' Jeffrey, the editor, in acknowledging it, said, ' The more I think, the less I can conceive, where you picked up that style.' Earlier than that, while he was still at Trinity College, he wrote an essay on the conduct and character...

...surprise and pleasure it gave to the reading public. The grudging compliment of Jeffrey, the reviewer, " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style!" shows the impression it made on the critics. From the publication of the Milton in 1825 Macaulay was...

...sent his essay on Milton to the ' Edinburgh Review,' Jeffrey, the editor, in acknowledging it, said, ' The more I think, the less I can conceive, where you picked up that style.' Earlier than that, while he was still at Trinity College, he wrote an essay on the conduct and character...

...pleasure it gave to the reading public. The grudging compliment of Jeffrey, the reviewer, " The more 1 think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style ! " shows the impression it made on the critics. From the publication of the Milton in 1825 Macaulay...

...article on Milton, which came out in August, 1825. Jeffrey had written to him, in acknowledging the MS., "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." The article on Milton at once gave reputation to its writer. Macaulay was entering to the bar — was,...