 | 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...despised little book was really a masterpiece. Bunyan is as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakespeare the first... | |
 | 1744 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...of so wide and durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...despised little book was really a master-piece. Bunyan is as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspere the first... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...in libraries. But critics, he adds, were at length compelled to own that the ignorant multitude lind judged more correctly than the learned, and that the despised little book was really a masterpiece. Such, accordingly, has long since been the settled verdict in the case, and being so, I do not now,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Snakspeare the first of dramatists. Other aJlegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no other allegorist... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...allegorists have shown equal ingenuity ; but no other allegorist'has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 824
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...allegorists have shown equal ingenuity; but no other alle* Bunyan's Grace Abounding. CHAP.' gorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make j^—... | |
 | John Angell James - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspear the first of dramatists. Other allegorists have shewn equal ingenuity; but no other has ever... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...masterpiece. Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the first of alle* Bunyan's Grace Abounding. VOL. H. Q CHAP, gorists, as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or... | |
 | 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...MACAULAY, admirable as a writer, did not show himself to be a good critic when he wrote the following : " Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the first of allegorists,...of orators, or Shakspeare the first of dramatists." Spenser is not only superior to Bunyan as an alleforist, but he is also partly his original, t has... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...so wide and so durable a popularity lay. They were compelled to own that the ignorant multitude had judged more correctly than the learned, and that the...book was really a masterpiece. Bunyan is indeed as deeidedly the first of allegorists, as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspere the first... | |
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Shakspeare the first of dramatists. Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity ; but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love.* It may be doubted whether any English... 
