 | 1831 - 652 pàgines
...— 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...it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Banyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pàgines
...dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pàgines
...— 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 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 pàgines
...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...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pàgines
...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...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
 | 1843 - 644 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...features of Cromwell and Milton were less picturesque been improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pàgines
...perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the unpolluted English language, no book which shows so...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
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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... 
