 Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory 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 the latter half of the seventeenth century,...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 3711917Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...It has been improved by all that it lias borrowed." And again : •> We are not afrnld to say, Unit, though there were many clever men in England during...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty In a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced... | |
 | War office - 1858 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | English essays - 1858 - 762 pages
...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 pages
...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...there were only two great creative minds ; one of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the " Pilgrim's Progress." 'There are, we think,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...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...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced... | |
 | 1860 - 886 pages
...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 - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...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 Frederick Pardon - Benevolence - 1861 - 412 pages
...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...there were only two great creative minds : one of those minds produced the ' Paradise Lost,' the other the ' Pilgrim's Progress ! ' " Dr. Eadcliffe termed... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1862 - 886 pages
...language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's I *royress. 'There are, we think, so.ue... | |
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