 Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men,...  The baptist Magazine - Page 1111832Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...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 vehement...for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the fact, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly... | |
 | James Simson - 1881 - 90 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...people. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos. Tor vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient" — Mucaulay, Critical and Hist orir.nl Essays, i. 420. thought he, had I no more in my eye than the... | |
 | 1881 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Arthur Reade - 1882 - 128 pages
...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 vehement...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 pages
...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 vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for eveiy purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working... | |
 | James Simson - 1884 - 29 pages
...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... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 pages
...exactly \ what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator,...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... | |
 | James Simson - 1884 - 50 pages
...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition/for every purpose of the poel, the orator, and the 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... | |
 | Caste - 1885 - 86 pages
...of mechanics and artizans. Of John Bunyan's immortal allegory, Macaulay says, " there is no 15 book on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language." In our own day the stonemason, Hugh Miller, one of the noblest of Scotsmen, has enriched his country's... | |
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