"Edginess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... precision, as well as hard and scolding precision. Those most interesting English critics of the generation slightly anterior to Macaulay,—Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Leigh Hunt,—were fully his equals in precision, and yet they knew how to be clear, acute, and definite, without that edginess and inelasticity which is so conspicuous in Macaulay's criticisms, alike in their matter and ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) - Essay 4: Macaulay • John Morley |
