 ... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - 89. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson - 1816Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 oldal
...common intercourse of life ; among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is ri^ht : but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 oldal
...common intercourse of life; among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 oldal
...consonant and congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...learned depart from established forms of speech in hopes of finding or making better : those who write for distinction, forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar... | |
 | 1857 - 574 oldal
...common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, whsn the vulgar is right; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 412 oldal
...is mankind or manbrode of matrimony sprung. — P. Ploughman. Here hath and is are used plurally. " Those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right — the whole people is the vulgar." — Dr. Johnson. This people are descended of the Chaldseans.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 oldal
...common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...and below refinement, where propriety resides, and w here this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 oldal
...common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is, therefore, more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author... | |
 | Amos Bronson Alcott - 1872 - 300 oldal
...to be understood, without ambition of eloquence. The polite are always catching modish expressions, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making it better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right ; but there... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 oldal
...common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...resides, and -where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 330 oldal
...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but...grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides." / But all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too... | |
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