| 1831 - 652 페이지
...the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.... | |
| 1832 - 534 페이지
...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 it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their... | |
| 1832 - 606 페이지
...fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 페이지
...the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 페이지
...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 it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 페이지
...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 it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the... | |
| 1843 - 644 페이지
...the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows ao well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." No : our own " well of English undefiled" is enough for our wants, and to display under such circumstances... | |
| 1879 - 826 페이지
...the fame of the old uupolluted 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 it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom... | |
| 1883 - 798 페이지
...Thomas Fnller, Richard Baxter, Jeremy Taylor, John Milton, John Bunyan,* Leighton and Ken. In the * " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of tie seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those produced the Paradise... | |
| 1846 - 508 페이지
...this principle we have been blessed by God. It is the remark of Macaulay, in his Miscellanies, that "though there were many clever men in England, during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds; one of these minds produced the " Paradise Lost," and the other, the " Pilgrim's... | |
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