 | Reginald Stephen Copleston - Bihar (India) - 1892 - 554 pages
...canonical books, the ' Questions ' has a vigour and variety which would justify the praise of originality. Professor Rhys Davids says : ' I venture to think...indeed is the best book of its class, from a literary point of view, that had then been produced in any country.' The first part of this sentence I will... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 560 pages
...Professor Rhys Davids says : " I venture to think that the ' Questions of Milinda ' is undoubtedly'the masterpiece of Indian prose ; and indeed is the best...latter part. But the reader who should expect from the Miliudopanho the humour, the human interest, the charm or the inspiration of Plato, would prepare for... | |
 | F. Max Muller - 2001 - 796 pages
...especially of the perorations by which the solutions are sometimes closed, must have been a continual feast. I venture to think that the ' Questions of Milinda...indeed is the best book of its class, from a literary point of view, that had then been produced in any country. Limits of space prevent the discussion of... | |
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... put, and solved, so exactly appealed,—to such a reader both the easy grace of the opening dialogue, as of a ship sailing in calm waters, and the real eloquence of occasional passages, more especially of the perorations by which the solutions are... 