 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
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 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,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 pages
...pleasure." — Coleridge. " 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,... | |
 | F. Walter Savage - 1878 - 294 pages
...extraits suivants: — 1. The style of Bunyan is delighful 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 - 1878 - 444 pages
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary...observed several pages which do not contain a single word oi more than two syllables."— Xacavlay. where he carried on the business of a linen-draper. At fifty... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 448 pages
...to everj" person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary IB the vocabulary of the common people. There is not...contain a single word of more than two syllables."— Macaulay. where he carried on the business of a linen-draper. At fifty years of age he retired from... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...Phrenology. feebler BUNYAN. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to condemned for lightness. O has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...person of Jeffreys. 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 - 1880 - 442 pages
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary...puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pagea which do not contain a single word ol more than two syllables."— Macaulay. where he carried... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 pages
...acquainted . . . ' 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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