| Walter Simson - 1865 - 606 páginas
...the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...the fame of the old, unpolluted, English language," as the Pilgrim's Progress ; " no book which shows, so well, how rich that language is in its own proper... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...real trial of Alice Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of Jefferies. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 páginas
...qualities, in his dream, has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| 1866 - 408 páginas
...qualities, in his dream, has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 432 páginas
...Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of Jefferies. The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| George Frederick Pardon - 1866 - 364 páginas
...personal recollections of another, — and this miracle the tinker has wrought The style of Bunyau is delightful to every reader, and invaluable, as a study, to every person who wishes to ubtaiu a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people... | |
| Book - 1868 - 168 páginas
...in his dream, has more dramatic effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays. .... The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...however, it is now quite separated in meaning See Trench's " Select Glossary," sub voce " Pretence." (3) "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 páginas
...the dens in which the old giants dwelt, amidst the bones and ashes of those whom they had slain. * The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
| Young people - 1869 - 684 páginas
...one mind should become the personaLrecollections of another; and this miracle the tinker has wrought. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
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