 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 - Page 133by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...Bunyan's English, though his estimate is, perhaps, a little high-pitched, is worth quoting : — " 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...Bunyan's English, though his estimate is, perhaps, a little high-pitched, is worth quoting : — " 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,... | |
 | Nathaniel George Clark - English language - 1863 - 238 pages
...the cavaliers, nor by the models of the French school. " The style of Bunyan," says Lord Macaulay, " 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...also, another In Mncnulay's Miscellanies, i. 428. From the latter I cannot but extract the following: —"The style of Bunyan Is delightful to every reader,...We have observed several pages which do not contain s single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Bass Rock (Scotland) - 1864 - 368 pages
...is the critic's estimate of the style which Hume so depreciated. " The style of Bunyan," he says, " 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,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1865 - 634 pages
...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,...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. \Ve have observed several pages which do not contain a single word J Entrofourtton. IX of more than... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wiiie command over the English language. The vocabulary...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. tor magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...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,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...qualities, in his dream, has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays. 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,... | |
 | Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...qualities, in his dream, has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays. 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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