The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two... Whiteladiespor Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1917 - 898 páginas
...these minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." Macaulay further said: — " For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...every purpose of the poet, the orator and the divine, there was not a book which shews so "well how rich its language is in its own proper wealth as the... | |
| 1917 - 900 páginas
...minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." Macaulay further said: — ".ITor magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...every purpose of the poet, the orator and the divine, there was not a book which shews so well how rich its language is in its own proper wealth as the immortal... | |
| William Young Fullerton - 1920 - 404 páginas
...his style what Macaulay said of Bunyan's : ' The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people.' Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose, the poet, the orator, the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of the plain working-man, was perfectly... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...sufficient. 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... | |
| Paul Heyne - 1922 - 208 páginas
..."The packing we adopt in our shipments being very safe we can assure you that no breakage will occur." "For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect was perfectly sufficient." Im Gegensatz zu diesem Satzbau erscheint es manchmal geboten, das, worauf... | |
| 1924 - 458 páginas
...invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. . . . For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. — Macaulay. "Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come." This is one of the many... | |
| John Brown - 1928 - 648 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...sufficient. 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... | |
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