| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 432 sider
...incorporate easily with our native idioms. " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...extracted from Hooker, and the translation of the Bible j the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 sider
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, ami navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 sider
...of style, expression's every grace, Each elegance of speech, 'tis his to trace ; beth," says he, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use, and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 sider
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 sider
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Rakigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 sider
...boundary, beyond which 1 make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 sider
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 sider
...tjoundary, beyond which I make few excur-, sions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
| 1824 - 494 sider
...the authors who rose in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, ' from whom,' in the powerful language of Dr. Johnson, ' a speech might be formed, adequate to all...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare ; few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words in which they... | |
| George Miller - 1824 - 546 sider
...interesting period, that Johnson * has declared his opinion, that from the authors which rose in her time, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. Nor should we forget, that to her protecting care, extended to this countiy, then sunk in barbarism,... | |
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