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features of Defoe's stye" says Minto, "is the use of homely language. It is one of the secrets of the continued popularly of Robinson Crusoe. His honour consists in the application of very homely language to affairs usually treated with stiff-dignity. "Tuckerman calls Defoe, "a an of the people, a writer of plain, vigorous, embellished English. He continually uses the homely idioms of the street."

    Dean Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels is not a tiniker like Bunyan, nor a butcher's son like Defoe. He is far above such writers in the social scale. He yet uses like them, plain, homely, everyday English. He is said to have laid down and followed the principle, that "the divine should have nothing to say to the wisest of men that the most uneducated could not understand could not understand." He hated all foreign words and reviled  those that 'corrupted'  the language by introducing them. "he says what he means in the homeliest nation English that can be conceived." It is noteworthy that Dr.Johnson should speak as he did of Swift's language and styles: "He (Swift) always understands himself and his readers always understand him. The purpose of Swift wants little previous knowledge and it is sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common tings... The great merit of the Tale of the Tub seems to consist in the author's familiarity