 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 446 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. BANCROFT. I800GEORGE BANCROFT was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in I800. He recently returned from... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...which we could 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. . . We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...which we could 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. . . We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...There is no book in oar literature on which we could 00 readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted not, interpose with dignity or effect. The desperate...highly esteems and honours the English troops than I d . . . We arc not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...could no i ^i. 1M v stake the fume of the old, unpolluted English Innguage; no book which shows BO well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. . . . Wo nre not afraid to eay that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 640 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...Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English - 1880 - 844 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...Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse and the duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 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. Eunyan. Dr. Johnaon ; the life of Literary Men in Johnson's youth. At the time when Johnson commenced... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...our literature," says Macaulay, "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." How came Bunyan to produce this masterpiece ? At school he learned only to read and write, both of... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...Macaulay* speaks of Bunyan as affording a sample of " the old unpolluted English language," and tells us "how rich that language is in its own proper wealth,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." Prudently enough, the thesis of what constitutes the unpollutedness of Bunyan's English is left unattempted.... | |
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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... 
