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" For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature... "
Public Speaking and Debate: With an Essay on Sacred Eloquence by Henry ... - Page 88
by George Jacob Holyoake - 1863 - 234 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not...
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The Congregational Magazine, Volume 15

1832 - 534 pages
...and the divine, this homely dialect— the dialect of plain working men — is perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their...
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The baptist Magazine

1832 - 606 pages
...the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 12

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the ignominious...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of...
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The Childrens' Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction, Volume 6

1843 - 396 pages
...making his own imaginations become the personal recollections of his reader. There is no other hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not...
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The New Englander, Volume 1

1843 - 644 pages
...passing judgment upon its style, says : — " T-here 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 ao well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

1850 - 602 pages
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would...unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 82

1879 - 824 pages
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...of plai» workingmen, was perfectly sufficient Thert is no book in our literature on which we could he beauties afterwards portrayed by Lely were not...picturesque than those of the round-faced peers, as li Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of...
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