...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not...

...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." * When we have heard a minister telling his hearers to take a retrospect * Edinburgh Beview. of their...

...which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shews so well how rich that language is in its own proper...fear of moving a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon s Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on...

...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its...fear of moving a sneer. To our refined forefathers, we suppose, Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on...

...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." In speaking of Southey, whose principles are not agreeable to Mr. Macaulay, he says, alluding to the...

...hook on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has heen improved by all that it has borrowed. Fifty or sixty years ago, Cowper said that he dared not...

...which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows ao well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth,...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." No : our own " well of English undefiled" is enough for our wants, and to display under such circumstances...

...fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well [as the Pilgrim's Progress] how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." The outline of the history of English, which we have thus hurriedly...

...literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old uupolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." It is well known that Dr. Johnson had a great aversion to reading books through, and that he seldom...

...literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book Restoration ; as if the costume or the features of...like each other as eggs to eggs, who look out from we suppose, Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on...