 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pages
...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pjithos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition,...this homely dialect, — the dialect of plain working menj —was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 582 pages
...is expressed with characteristic slap-dash extravagance : " No writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, anil the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient.... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 pages
...estimate is expressed with characteristic slap-dash extravagance: "No writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for evury purpose of the poet, the orator, an'l the divine, this h<>mely dialect — the dialect of plain... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 pages
...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, for vehement...divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain workingmen — was perfectly sufficient." — Lord Macaulay. countenance and thus began to question... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1895 - 348 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...homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfecIly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1895 - 294 pages
...two syllables. Yet, no writer has said more exactly what he wanted to say. For magnificence, for p pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition,...poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, this dialect of plain working men, was sufficient.' In the first edition of Practical Grammar (by the... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1896 - 282 pages
...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet, no writer has said more exactly what he wanted to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, this dialect of plain working men, was sufficient.' In the first edition of Practical Grammar (by the... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 384 pages
...has said more exactly it he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, lor subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet,...divine, 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 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...divine, 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... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 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...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily... | |
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