 | 1831 - 652 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature...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 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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...it 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... | |
 | 1843 - 396 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 sivua
...purpose of th'e fact, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | 1849 - 778 sivua
...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...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, " Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
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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... 
