| 1850 - 638 oldal
...navigation from Raleigh, the dialect ' of poetry from Spenser and Sydney, and the diction of com' mon life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind...of English words in which they might be expressed.' Now the bulk of this language is, and has ever been, Saxon ; at the same time, the obligations to Greek... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 oldal
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Slmkspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed. Preface to Johnfon's JDi&ionaiy, p. 74. The affluence and comprehension of our language is- very illustriously... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 oldal
...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life...of English words, in which they might be expressed *." This eulogium, however, is excessive; for, though the writers of the Elizabethan age merit much... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 oldal
...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Jinleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life...of English words, in which they might be expressed *." This eulogium, however, is excessive ; for, though the writers of the Elizabethan age merit much... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 oldal
...Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common l/fe from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind,...of English words, in which they might be expressed *." This eulogium, however, is excessive ; for, though the writers of the Elizabethan age merit much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 oldal
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shaksptare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 oldal
...dialect of poetry and fiction 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 might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 oldal
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a periodical publication, therefo.re, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 oldal
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a. periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 oldal
...not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that '.' fcw ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed." * In a periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
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