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" 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, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that... "
Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 192
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 923 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not...
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The Congregational Magazine, Volume 15

Congregationalism - 1832 - 534 pages
...the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 12

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...The taste of Macaulay, in regard to diction, is sufficiently manifest in what he says of Bunyan: " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the...
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The Childrens' Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction, Volume 6

Children's literature - 1843 - 396 pages
...making his own imaginations become the personal recollections of his reader. There is no other hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not...
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The New Englander, Volume 1

Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows ao well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." No : our own " well of English undefiled" is enough for our wants, and to display under such circumstances...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 82

1879 - 824 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...perfectly 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...dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of raising a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse,'...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We have observed several pages which do not contain...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, " Though there were many clever men in England during...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We nave observed several pages which do not contain a single...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer haŤ said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during...
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