 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 133by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, fifty or sixty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of moving a sneer.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...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. Cowpcr said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...should be to John Bunyan, the immortal Dreamer. "There is no book," says Macaulay, " on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English...and how little it has been improved by all that it lias borrowed. . . . Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth... | |
 | Frederick George Hilton PRICE - 1876 - 424 pages
...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876 - 632 pages
...divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | William Godwin - Magic - 1876 - 376 pages
...divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to BYRON'S (Lord) LETTERS AND JOURNALS. With Notices of his Life. By THOMAS MOOEE.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...ultimate triumph of the Christian life, — a work of which a great English critio has said : " There is no book in our literature, on which we could so...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." After bis liberation, which took place in 1672, Bunyan still continued to preach ; laboring on till... | |
 | Charles Wells - 1876 - 318 pages
...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | Sir John Davies - English poetry - 1876 - 312 pages
...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to iay that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 388 pages
...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
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