 | 1831 - 652 pages
...plain men and women. Of tbe persons who read the first Canto, not one in ten reaches the end of tbe first Book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to...Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giant-Killcr. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was...every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favorite than Jack the Giant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as he... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...domain. He would succeed admirably in the enchanted ground of Alcina, or the mansion of Aladdin. But he should avoid Milton and Bunyan. The characteristic...Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said,...every nursery the " Pilgrim's Progress " is a greater favorite than " Jack the Giant-Killer." Every reader knows the strait and narrow path, as well as he... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...Deadly Sins, and long for the society of plain men and women. Of the persons who read the first ''^ato, ion never impaired his reasoning powers. The statesman was Giant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...he said, to read books through, made an exception in favour of the ' Pilgrim's Progress.' That work was one of the two or three works which he wished...Progress ' is a greater favourite than ' Jack the Giant Killer.' Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...an exception in favor of the " Pil*grim's Progress." That work, he said, was one of the two or thrce works which he wished longer. It was by no common...every nursery, the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite than "Jack the Giant-killer." Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which be wished longer. It was by no common merit that the...every nursery, the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite than "Jack the Giant-killer." Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of the two or three works which he wished...most pedantic of critics, and the most bigoted of tones. In the wildest parts of Scotland, the ' Pilgrim's Progress " is the delight of the peasantry.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...books through, made an exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was j.ne of the two or three works which he wished longer....the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of ^c./tiaml the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight nf the peasantry. I:i every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress... | |
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That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland... 
