...the day in this famous article. Jeffrey wrote in his letter acknowledging the receipt of the paper: " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style " ; and the great preacher of the day, Robert Hall, was found spread on the floor with Italian grammar...

...poured in from every side — best of all the word of the formidable Jeffrey, editor of the Review : " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." It was not that a new literary method had been applied in the writing of reviews, but that a new master...

...to repeat" — came from Jeffrey, the editor, when he acknowledged the receipt of the manuscript: " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." When Macaulay entered college, his father considered himself worth at least a hundred thousand pounds;...

...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.'" To Macaulay's later taste the essay seemed " gaudy and ungraceful." He says, " It contained scarcely...

...repeat " — came from Jeffrey, the editor, when he acknowledged the receipt of the manuscript : " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." When Macaulay entered college, his father considered himself worth at least a hundred thousand pounds...

...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....

...to the Edinburgh Review in 1825 attracted the attention of the editor, Jeffrey, who said to him, " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." In 1830 he entered the House of Commons as member for Calne, and at once made his mark by a speech...

...In acknowledging the receipt of Macaulay's ' Essay on Milton ', Jeffrey wrote to the young author, "The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style". The subjective elements of a marked style are usually developed by external ' educational ' circumstances...

...In acknowledging the receipt of Macaulay's ' Essay on Milton ', Jeffrey wrote to the young author, " The more I think, the less I can conceive where you picked up that style ". The subjective elements of a marked style are usually developed by external 'educational' circumstances...

...morning and found himself famous." Jeffrey wrote a compliment that Macaulay was fond of repeating : " The more I think the less I can conceive where you picked up that style." During the next eight years Macaulay was the mainstay of the Edinburgh, and the sale was large or small...