 | 1880 - 798 sivua
...Macaulay* speaks of Bunyan as affording a sample of " the old unpolluted English language," and tells us "how rich that language is in its own proper wealth,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." Prudently enough, the thesis of what constitutes the unpollutedness of Bunyan's English is left unattempted.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sivua
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of the workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. for his time, and not for his art. W. ALLSTON. unjxjlluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...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 unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 sivua
...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." Even the assertion that " the vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people " is inconsiderate... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 sivua
...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... | |
 | James Simson - 1881 - 90 sivua
...and the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain workingmen — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language " as the Pilgrim's Progress ; " no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alfred Arthur Reade - 1882 - 128 sivua
...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 improved by all that it has borrowed." Euskin, above all, should be read and studied. He is the great... | |
 | Thomas Page (schoolmaster.) - 1883 - 144 sivua
...1688. from the City of Destruction to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Of this work, Lord Macaulay says : — " There is no book in our literature on which we would...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed " ; and, " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century,... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 602 sivua
...journey from the City of Destruction to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Of this work, Lord Macaulay says: — "There is no book in our literature on which we would...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed " ; and, " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century,... | |
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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... 
