 | 1923 - 514 sider
...the 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...fr"om Raleigh, the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney, and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 sider
...over about a year or two ago. Samuel Johnson Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 IF the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and 20 navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 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." 2 He then mentions Hooker, Bacon, Raleigh, Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare, as authors who between... | |
 | 1926 - 604 sider
..."Dictionary of the English Language," 1 755, Preface: "From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegante. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the tnnsladon of the Bible, the... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sider
...models of style; from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and but words must be sought where they are o they still, as if with opium I have sometimes, though rarely, yielded and the diction of common life from Shake- to the temptation... | |
 | Nadja Kempner - 1928 - 146 sider
..."Dictionary of the English Language," 1755, Preface: "From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh, (es folgen noch Spenser, Sidney und Shakespeare) few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 sider
...insight. He sees that it was fluid and experimental and had become largely obsolete ; yet that from it a speech might be ' formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance ' ; and that by extracting this from the great authors, ' few ideas would be lost to mankind for want... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 sider
...Elisabeth datiert the golden age of our language 2). From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance3). Sie sind the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English... | |
 | 1851 - 644 sider
...to our present purpose;) — "From the authors," says he, •' which rose in the timo 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 policy, war, and... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 sider
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authours 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... | |
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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... 
