 | John Bunyan - 1851 - 392 pages
...though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared...John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of moving a sneer. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has bcen improvedlby all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted promises which cost so little to the cold heart,...successfully that the fame of his fruit soon spread far Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the alle gory... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well ho«' rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and...how little it has been improved by all that it has burrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, fi... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language i& in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been...Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...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...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 156 pages
...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...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. In the first edition of "Practical Grammar" the author fell into this vagueness. If remarks had to... | |
 | Stephen B. Wickens - Authors, English - 1853 - 364 pages
...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 well how...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." The same writer observes, — " Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...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...how little it has been improved by all that it has * JerroUVs Shilling Magazine, No. 8. July, 1S45. In the first edition of " Practical Grammar " the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which allows so well how rich that language is in its own proper...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Oowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
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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 it... 
