 That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the...  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 134by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New York city, Lenox libr - 1877 - 270 pages
...with tears. . . . That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which lie wished longer. It was by no common merit that... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...pleasure which belongs wholly to the understanding, and in which the feelings have no part whatever. It is not so with the Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful...said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...'Pilgrim's Progress.' That wonderful nook, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the 'Pilgrim's Progress' is... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...read by many thousands with tears. While it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, it is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in its favour." " Bunyan," says Uallam, " saw, and makes us see, what he describes ; he is circumstantial... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. The work was one of the two or three works which he wished...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics,. is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer.... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 pages
...with tears. . . . That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....in favour of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer.* It was by no common merit that... | |
 | William Richard Savage - 1881 - 286 pages
...desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favour of the Pilgrims Progress. That work was one of the two or three works...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. " In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrims Progress is... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...to read books through, made an exception in favour of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said, al is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore,...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the " Pilgrim's Progress "... | |
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