 | 1831 - 652 páginas
...the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
 | 1832 - 534 páginas
...and the divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their... | |
 | 1832 - 606 páginas
...the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the ignominious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | 1843 - 396 páginas
...making his own imaginations become the personal recollections of his reader. There is no other hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not... | |
 | 1843 - 644 páginas
...passing judgment upon its style, says : — " T-here is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows ao well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by... | |
 | 1850 - 602 páginas
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has... | |
 | 1879 - 826 páginas
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...of plai» workingmen, was perfectly sufficient Thert is no book in our literature on which we could he beauties afterwards portrayed by Lely were not...picturesque than those of the round-faced peers, as li Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
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For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature... 
