 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
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 388 pages
...wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during...century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the 'Paradise Lost,' the other, the ' Pilgrim's Progress.'" — MACAULAY. BYRON'S... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...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...half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of these minds produced... | |
 | New York city, Lenox libr - 1877 - 270 pages
...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...Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." — Review of Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, London, 1830, Svo, in Edinburgh Review,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...his verse, for fear of moving a snecr. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that though there were many clever men in England during...there were only two great creative minds. One of these produced the PARADISE LOST, the other the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. BANCROFT. 1800GEORGE BANCROFT was born... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...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...century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the ' Paradise Lost,' the other the ' Pilgrim's Progress.' " Early in the next... | |
 | Edward D. Farrell - Spellers - 1877 - 228 pages
...on no encomiums upon Massachusetts. St. Paul was miraculously called to the ministry of the Gospel. Though there were many clever men in England during...century, there were only two great creative minds. Capitation-taxes are levied at little expense, and when they are rigorously exacted afford a very sure... | |
 | Frederick Harper - 1877 - 416 pages
...no wise reject, — I will in no wise eject. JOTTINGS ABOUT JOHN BUNYAN. 3RD MACAULAY well says, " 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. . . We are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during...Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress." — TB Mama lay. • Dr. Barlow. Bunyan himself, in the preface to the "Holy War," describes the way... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 748 pages
...would occupy in English literature ; for of English literature he knew nothing. During the latter part of the seventeenth century there were only two great creative minds : one produced " Paradise Lost," the other " Pilgrim's Progress." The medical world was startled by Harvey's... | |
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