 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...verse, for fear of moving a sneer. 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 ce'ntury, there were only two \ great \ ereative \ minds. One of these produced the " Paradise Lost," the 6iher \ the "Pilgrim's... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...fdme \ 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. tury, there were only twb \ great \ creative \ minds. One of these produced the " Paradise Lost," the... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 pages
...readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which show; how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language of Aristotle can Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 pages
...unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealtb, and how little it has been, improved by all that it has borrowed." NEVER BARBER & COMPANY'S RICH SIRUPY 0 NFA " ™* Sea8on>s Growth-n ls.6d. CONGO PER POUND. A TEA abounding... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1880 - 870 pages
...affording a sample of the old unpolluted English language, and tells us how rich that language was in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed, one cannot help wondering how the brilliant historian, and essayist would have fared if he had been... | |
 | Jacques Parmentier - 1887 - 364 pages
...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. " Bunyan's other works are numerous, but inferior. We will only mention an autobiography he has left,... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 622 pages
..." Progress" (Collected Essays, Vol. I. p. 367) with the remark : " 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."... | |
 | James Appleton Morgan - 1888 - 360 pages
...it. ... This is the highest miracle of art, that things which 1Cockayne vs. Hopkins, 2 Lev., 214. 2 " Though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of these minds produced... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...stake the fame of the 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. — Macaulay. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same, and... | |
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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... 
