 Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to 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 the latter half of the seventeenth century,...  Untrodden English Ways - Page 133by Henry Charles Shelley - 1908 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were...century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. AHT. VIII. — The Life and... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...appeared to be compositions iniuiiteJy superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of tbe seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the... | |
 | 1853 - 572 pages
...there were only two minds in England which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree ; one of these minds produced the Paradise Lost — the other the Pilgrim's Progress. In l780 the fashion at Paris consisted in wearingtvvo watches. The Duke de Richelieu, having a pair... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing signified should be exactly preserved." " Though there were many clever men in England during...Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." Such writing fixes itself in the mind; it has both sprighlliness and sting. And let it be observed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were...century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress. APPENDIX. POMPEII. A POEM... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...compositions infinitely superior to 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 ihe latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...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 pages
...With 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,...one of these minds produced the " Paradise Lost," and the other, the " Pilgrim's Progress." Says Dr. Williams, "we would append to this magnificent eulogy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...compositions infinitely superior to the alle gory of the preaching tinker. We live ia better times; and truggle between those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pil grim's Progress. END OF VOL. i CROKER'S EDITION... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faeulty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced... | |
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