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
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 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... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...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 "... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the "Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...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 "... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it ohtains 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 Pil• ."X grim's Progress... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 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....was one of the two or three works which he wished longer.3 It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the... | |
| D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In every nursery the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite... | |
| 1903 - 360 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In every nursery the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the "Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...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 "... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...148. Boswell. — Macaulay writes in his review of Southey's edition of The Pilgrim's Progress : ' Doctor Johnson, all whose studies were desultory,...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories.' Boswell relates that Dr. Johnson ' had a peculiar facility... | |
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