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 - Стр. 133авторы: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - Страниц: 758Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1831 - Страниц: 652
...vices, was just and merciful, when compared with the real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries....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,... | |
| 1832 - Страниц: 534
...has just extorted from reviewers who have little sympathy with its theology. " The style of Bnnyan 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,... | |
| 1832 - Страниц: 606
...study, to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary ¡a the vocabulary of the common people. There is not...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet THE PL AG UH IN 1665. (An Extract from Calamy's Life of Baxter, Abridgement, p. 583. ) "In the time... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - Страниц: 464
...trial of Lady 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,... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - Страниц: 644
...The taste of Macaulay, in regard to diction, is sufficiently manifest in what he says of Bunyan: " 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,... | |
| 1850 - Страниц: 602
...mentioning Mr. Macaulay, who makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands : "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,... | |
| 1879 - Страниц: 824
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - Страниц: 614
...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,... | |
| John Bunyan - 1850 - Страниц: 500
...great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. 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,... | |
| John Bunyan - 1850 - Страниц: 500
...great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. 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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