We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose... Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 139by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1831 - 652 pages
...Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
| 1832 - 534 pages
...the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...Macaulay, in regard to diction, is sufficiently manifest in what he says of Bunyan: " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the... | |
| 1843 - 396 pages
...making his own imaginations become the personal recollections of his reader. There is no other hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not... | |
| 1850 - 602 pages
...makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands : "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has... | |
| 1879 - 826 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the unpolluted English language, no book which shows so...dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of raising a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse,'... | |
| 1849 - 778 pages
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We have observed several pages which do not contain...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, " Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
| 1849 - 788 pages
...wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We nave observed several pages which do not contain a single...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer ha« said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
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