 At length critics condescended to enquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the despised little book was really a masterpiece....  The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: History of England - Стр. 52авторы: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1849 - Страниц: 748
...publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...despised little book was really a masterpiece. Bunyan is as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakespeare the first... | |
 | 1744 - Страниц: 596
...high literary eminence. At length, critics condescended to inqnire where the secret of so wide and durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own...despised little book was really a master-piece. Bunyan is as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspere the first... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 652
...in libraries. But critics, he adds, were at length compelled to own that the ignorant multitude lind judged more correctly than the learned, and that the despised little book was really a masterpiece. Such, accordingly, has long since been the settled verdict in the case, and being so, I do not now,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - Страниц: 684
...publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Snakspeare the first of dramatists. Other aJlegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 654
...publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...first of allegorists, as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspeare the first of dramatists. Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no... | |
 | John Angell James - 1849 - Страниц: 302
...was publicly commended by men of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspear the first of dramatists. Other allegorists have shewn equal ingenuity; but no... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 422
...pious cottagers and artisans, before it was publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to enquire where the...little book was really a masterpiece. Bunyan is indeed the first of allegorists, as decidedly as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspere the first... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 732
...publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...masterpiece. Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the first of alle* Bunyan's Grace Abounding. VOL. H. Q CHAP, gorists, as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1849 - Страниц: 840
...publicly commended by any man of high literary eminence. At length critics condescended to inquire where the secret of so wide and so durable a popularity...book was really a masterpiece. Bunyan is indeed as deeidedly the first of allegorists, as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspere the first... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 858
...pious cottagers and artizans, before it was publicly commended by any man of high literarv eminence. At length critics condescended to enquire where the...the learned, and that the despised little book was, indeed, a master-piece. Bunyau is. indeed, as decidedly the first of allegorists, as Demosthenes is... | |
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