 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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 Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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 of • use and elegance. If the language of theoloijy were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural Itnowledge... | |
 | 1787 - 564 sider
...time of Elizabeth, a fpeecb might be formed adequate to all the purpofes of ufe and eU, jsnce. If tbe language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible j the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon j the phrafes of policy, war, anj navigation, from Raleigh... | |
 | University of London, R. E. Grant - 1829 - 374 sider
...sufficient grounds has Dr. Johnson observed*, ' From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed, adequate to all the purposes...and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 sider
...Johnson in the admirable preface to his English Dictionary, "a speech might be formed adequate to all purposes of use and elegance, if the language of theology were extracted from Hooker, and the Bible translation ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840 - 546 sider
...probably owing to the greater fixedness of our aristocratic national character. " If," says Dr. Johnson, " the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspere, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might... | |
 | 1861 - 716 sider
...Dr. Johnson does not exaggerate when he says: "From the authors who rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the phrases of war, policy, and... | |
 | 1843 - 148 sider
...words of our own, when our authorized version supplies us with so many and proper expressions, * " If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...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... | |
 | 1843 - 150 sider
...words of our own, when our authorized version supplies us with so many and proper expressions, * " If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...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... | |
| |
From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge... 
