 | 1857 - 802 pages
...the fame of the old unpolluted English language,' as the Pilgrim's Progress ; ' no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper...wealth, and how little it has been improved by all it has borrowed Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted s' compared with which the finest declamationsof Burke...into insignificance. They are a perfect field of Roscommun's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Upwards of sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse for fear of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 976 pages
...our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language j no book which shows so well how rich that language...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 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...wealth, and how little it has been improved by all it has borrowed." — TB Macattlay. Now I further saw, that betwixt them and the gate was a i John... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...which we would so readily stake the fame of Ihe old unpolluted English language, no book which allows so well how rich that language is in its own proper...Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse^ and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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." And again : " We are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1860 - 416 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...proper wealth, and how little it has been improved hy nil that it has borrowed. " — 3ftcitv?ity's Exeayp The words which are composed of a self-significant... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1860 - 606 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...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." Here, in a passage written by one of the most brilliant and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted JSnglish termanded his orders. He tore Clive's letters. He...begged pardon for his intemperance. In the mean time, Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the alle gory... | |
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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... 
