 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
 | 1866 - 408 pages
...beings in most plays. 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,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...beings in most plays. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...person of Jefferies. 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,... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...in most plays. .... 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...expression, if we except a few technical terms of 57 theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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 Henry W. Biggs - 1871 - 82 pages
...— (ON SOTTTHKY.) 5. " The style of Banyan is delightful to every reader, r invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a •wide command...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pages
...person of Jefferies. 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 Boyd Grier - 1872 - 168 pages
...(See Allibone.) ' ' " Ihe 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,... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...most plays. ******* 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 haa said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtaîu a quick command over the Englieh language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to вау. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
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