 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Sivu 133tekijä(t) Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1831 - 652 sivua
...vices, was just and merciful, when compared with the real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries....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,... | |
 | 1832 - 534 sivua
...has just extorted from reviewers who have little sympathy with its theology. " The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...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,... | |
 | 1832 - 606 sivua
...study, to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary ¡a the vocabulary of the common people. There is not...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet THE PL AG UH IN 1665. (An Extract from Calamy's Life of Baxter, Abridgement, p. 583. ) "In the time... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 sivua
...trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of JefFeries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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,... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 sivua
...The taste of Macaulay, in regard to diction, is sufficiently manifest in what he says of Bunyan: " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 602 sivua
...mentioning Mr. Macaulay, who makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands : "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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,... | |
 | 1879 - 826 sivua
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 sivua
...real trial of Alice Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of JefFeries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 sivua
...great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 sivua
...great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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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