 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...Jeffries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every perton who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary ii the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 976 pages
...language. The vocabulary 19 the vocabulary of the common people. There is not nn expression, if we eicept a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. \Ve have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. t\et... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1860 - 416 pages
...the common people, whose vernacular tongue it yet, in a manner, continues.* * "The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain u wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vovabnlary of the common people. There... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...Miscellanies, 1. 428. From the latter I cannot but extract the following : — "The style of Bunyan Is delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study to every person who winhea to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary IB the vocabulary of Hit-... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...Macaulay. Here is a passage from Macaulay's eulogy on Bunyan's style : — " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person, who desires to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Benevolence - 1861 - 412 pages
...personal recollections of another, — and this miracle the tinker has wrought The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable, as a study,...vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people . . . . For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - Authors, English - 1861 - 400 pages
...reader, and invaluable as a ftudy to every perfon who wifhes to obtain a wide command over the Englifh language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expreflion, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudeft peafant.... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1862 - 886 pages
...afflicted with religious melancholy. 'The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader; and invaluable asa denial, U the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical tenus... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...Miscellanies, i. 428. From the latter I cannot but extract the following: —"The style of Bunyan Is delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study...We have observed several pages which do not contain s single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...true, the works of the Bedford tinman deserve special attention. The style of Bunyan, says Macaulay, is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study...people. There is not an expression, if we except a few terms in theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not... | |
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Bunyanis 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 a few technical... 
