 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...addresses him : — " Itaque pocmata quiescunt, que TU inter nemora, et lucos commodissime perfici putas." which are ill sounding or improper, or in admitting...custom only ; and, as I may say, without any fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...quod Aper increpabat, tantam mihi afferunt voluptatem, ut inter praecipuos carminum fructos numerem." •which are ill sounding or improper, or in admitting...custom only ; and, as I may say, without any fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...in his famous dialogue De Causis corrupts Eloquentice. But, to shew that our language is improved, and that those people have not a just value for the...phrases. which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admit ting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant." The reader will easily... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 468 pages
...in his famous dialogue, De Causis corrupts Eloquentite. But, to shew that our language is improved, and that those people have not a just value for the...custom only, and, as I may say, without any fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can but be accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...in his famous Dialogue De Causis corrupice Eloquentice. But to shew that our language is improved, and that those people have not a just value for the...custom only ; and, as I may say, without any fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast, To please an age more gallant than the last." « "Either in rejecting such old words or phrases which...new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more luxuriant. * * * Malice and partiality set apart, let any man who understands English, read diligently... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...principally consists : that is, either in rejecting such old words or phrases which are ill-sounding or improper, or in admitting new, which are more proper,...custom only ; and, as I may say, without any fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...last.... Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists : That is cither in rejecting such old words or phrases which are ill sounding or improper, or in admiiting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more signiflcant.... Let any man who understands... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...part 1. The language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last.... Let us consider in what the refinement of a language...are ill sounding or improper, or in admitting new, whioh are more proper, more sounding, and more significant.... Let any man who understands English,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...principally consists ; that is, " either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are illsounding or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant." . . . Let any man, who understands English, read diligently the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher,... | |
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... either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding and more significant. 
