 | 1831 - 652 sivua
...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language 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
...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own...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
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 sivua
...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own...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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 sivua
...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own...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
...on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language 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
...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,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." No : our own " well of English undefiled" is enough for our wants, and to display under such circumstances... | |
 | 1850 - 602 sivua
...fame of the old 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 improved by all that it has borrowed." The outline of the history of English, which we have thus hurriedly... | |
 | 1879 - 826 sivua
...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...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 sivua
...on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which ration ; as if the costume or the features of Cromwell...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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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 shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has... 
