We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One... The Bookman - Página 3961890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...the alle gory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pil grim's Progress.... | |
| 1858 - 842 páginas
...is in its own. proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. . . Though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds One of these minds produced the ' Paradise Lost,' the other the ' Pilgrim's Progress... | |
| War office - 1858 - 578 páginas
...years, and we perceive its merits feelingly in declining age." Lord Macauley has said of Bunyan : — " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the 17th century, there were only two great creative minds. One of these minds produced the ' Paradise... | |
| 1858 - 762 páginas
...language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. . . Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of tlie seventeenth ceniury, there were only two great creative minds. One of these minds produced the... | |
| John Bunyan - 1859 - 976 páginas
...language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds ; one of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the " Pilgrim's Progress."... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." And again : " We are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during...imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the ' Paradise Lost,' the other the • Pilgrim's Progress.' " to wit, that he... | |
| 1860 - 886 páginas
...Bunyan and Milton were, yet one famous sentence contains their names as this case holds their relics. " Though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two creative minds," says Lord Macaulay; " one of those minds produced ' The Paradise Lost,' the other,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 páginas
...It haa been Improved by all that It has borrowed." And again: "W« •re not afraid to say, tliat, though there were many clever men In England during the latter half of tin- M'Vciiteenth cenliiry, there were only two minds which possessed the Imaginative fatuity in a... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...on the other hand, in a paper published in 1830, has written : — " We are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during...imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." And, to the end of his life,... | |
| George Frederick Pardon - 1861 - 412 páginas
...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient Though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds : one of those minds produced the ' Paradise Lost,' the other the ' Pilgrim's... | |
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