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" 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... "
Joseph and his brethren, a scriptural drama, by H.L. Howard. By C. Wells - Página 236
por Charles Jeremiah Wells - 1876
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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 to say. tor magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose...
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The Progressive English reading books, Volumen4

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 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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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 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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The Advanced Reader

1866 - 408 páginas
...which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly-what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for...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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A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy Language

Walter Simson, James Simson - 1866 - 606 páginas
...uninspired man. Impugn it whoso list. Of the Pilgrim's Progress, Lord Macaulay, in his happy manner, writes: "For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men—was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Libro 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 páginas
...exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for "'"vehement texhortation, for tsubtle t disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator...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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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1867 - 972 páginas
...Personifications, when he dealt with them, became men." " The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people." " For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient," — Lord Macaulay. " Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 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 unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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...of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient."— Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, L 420. thought he, had I no more in my eye than the saving...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was per•' was ten o'clock was rea th tr be their MACAULAY. "iCil The head and body were...
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