 So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the...  Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse - 8. lappuseautors: Richard Sharp - 1834 - 268 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 lapas
...warn others against the folly of naturalizing useless foreigners to the injury of the natives. . . . Our language for almost a century has, by the concurrence...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 lapas
...warn others against the folly of naturalizing useless foreigners to the injury of the natives. . . . Our language for almost a century has, by the concurrence...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 lapas
...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the veils of English vndefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. Our language, for almost a century,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 lapas
...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its orignal Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 lapas
...satirist ridicules that " easy Ciceronian style, So Latin, yet so English all the while." . . . . ' Some men, whose writings do honour to their country...causes, been gradually departing from its ancient Teutonic character, and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it ought to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 lapas
...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character, and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 lapas
...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the iuells of English unde filed, as (he pure sources of genuine diction. Our language, for almost a century,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 lapas
...precepts, and affords the example, of a pure and eloquent style. " I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 lapas
...from any rare to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as tlie wells of English undejiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. Our language, for almost a... | |
 | 1812 - 760 lapas
...the English Dictionary, makes the following observations : " I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the Writers before the Restoration, whose works I regard as Ihe wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of English diction." — " Th« writers of the... | |
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