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
| John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 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... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 páginas
...that can be said. Macaulay's estimate is expressed with characteristic slap - dash extravagance : " No writer has said more exactly what he meant to say....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... | |
| James Simson - 1881 - 90 páginas
...the formation of his character" (Dis., p. 519). Of the Pilgrims Progress Lord Macaulay wrote : — " For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain workingmen — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily... | |
| 1881 - 602 páginas
...the common people. For magnificence, far pathos, for vehement exhortations, for subtle disquisitions, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. Though there were many clever men in, England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 páginas
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos. Tor vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the... | |
| Alfred Arthur Reade - 1882 - 128 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...poet, the orator and the divine, this homely dialect of plain working men was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 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...vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for eveiy purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Vet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say....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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 páginas
...observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer hss interpretation was in full activity. The great French...personal liberty, the English doctrine that all power would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well... | |
| James Simson - 1884 - 29 páginas
...the formation of his character" (Dis., p. 5'9). Of the Pilgrim's Progress Lord Macaulay wrote:— " For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect—the dialect of plain workingmen—was perfectly sufficient. There is. no book in our literature... | |
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