 | 1831 - 652 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 heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not... | |
 | 1832 - 534 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." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their... | |
 | 1832 - 606 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...sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon s Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 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." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the... | |
 | 1843 - 396 pages
...his reader. There is no other hook 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 heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not... | |
 | 1843 - 644 pages
...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,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." No : our own " well of English undefiled" is enough for our wants, and to display under such circumstances... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...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...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...Thert is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted t in their prime before the Restoration ; as if the...like each other as eggs to eggs, who look out from Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the alle gory... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of raising a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse,'... | |
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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... 
