...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...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...

...plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...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...

...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...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...

...imaginations become the personal recollections of his reader. There is no other hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...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...

...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...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...

...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...dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of raising a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse,'...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. T- B- Macanlay— Essays. To the names of Baxter and Howe must be added the name of a man far below...