 The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 133by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...vices, was just and merciful, when compared with the real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries....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... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1832 - 534 pages
...has just extorted from reviewers who have little sympathy with its theology. " The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...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... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...study, to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary ¡a the vocabulary of the common people. There is not...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet THE PL AG UH IN 1665. (An Extract from Calamy's Life of Baxter, Abridgement, p. 583. ) "In the time... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of JefFeries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...mentioning Mr. Macaulay, who makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands : "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 602 pages
...mentioning Mr. Macaulay, who makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands : "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...Mr. Macaniay, who makes the following remarks on Bunyan and the English language in his hands :—" The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...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... | |
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