 The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except...  Critical and historical essays - Page 184by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...language in his hands : "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...whom they had slain. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...vocabulary of the common pcople. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of thcology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificenee, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...person of Jeffries. The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to f z has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | Stephen B. Wickens - 1853 - 364 pages
...Macauley, Esq. : — " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehe* Montgomery's Essay.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...beings in most plays. 5. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...they had slain. * * The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...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,... | |
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