 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
 | F. Peel - 1874 - 144 pages
...Arna1dd. EXEKCJSE XI. 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 [essays]) - 1874 - 264 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...delightful to every reader, and invalnable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary...several pages which do not contain a single word of more jhan two syllables."—Ifacaulay. where he carried on the business of a linen-draper. At fifty years... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 pages
...manner, continues.* * " The style of Banyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable an a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression—if we except a few technical terms of theology—which would puzzle the rudest peasant.... | |
 | 1875 - 174 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...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,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wjshes to obtain a wide command over the English language....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,... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 248 pages
...Essay, on Drydcn. " 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...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. . . Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 244 pages
...Essay, on Dry den. " 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...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. . . Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 238 pages
...touch."—Essay, on Dry den, " 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...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. . . Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
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