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... The Mechanism of English Style - Pagina 123door Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - 291 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1831 - 652 pagina’s
...real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribuual where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| 1832 - 534 pagina’s
...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...expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| 1832 - 606 pagina’s
...Pilgrim's Progress," by Southey, Poet Laureat. ] " The style of Bunyan is delightful to e veryreader, and invaluable, as a study, to every person who wishes...command over the English language. The vocabulary Ħa the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pagina’s
...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,...expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pagina’s
...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,...expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| 1850 - 602 pagina’s
...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,...expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| 1879 - 824 pagina’s
...Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears. "The style of Bunyan," observes the same writer, ' ' is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a...to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...real trial of Lady Alice Lisle before that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of Jeffries. argument, invective, and ridicule. The Chureh made theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pagina’s
...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,...expression, if we except a few technical . terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain... | |
| 1849 - 778 pagina’s
...of the Author in his " Grace Abounding." The great essayist Macauley, speaking of this book, says, " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader,...vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no... | |
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