 That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the...  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 134by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics, and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress. That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics, and the most bigoted of tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the " Pilgrim's Progress"... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, y be no empty spaces marked by asterisks, it is still...which the whole was composed, end and begin. It was in he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer; It was by no common merit that the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...'Pilgrim's Progress.' That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the ' Pilgrim's Progress '... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 368 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics, and the most bigoted of tones. In the wildest parts of Scotland, the ' Pilgrim's Progress... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress." That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which be... | |
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