 What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of our own, and collect a little from strangers : this prepares us for a more intimate union with them, in which...  The Works of Walter Savage Landor - Página 88de Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 676 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 534 páginas
...last altogether. Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...in its natural course, until it runs too far ; AND EUBULIDES. and then the poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitude of pleasing by... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 540 páginas
...last altogether. .Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...weak in its natural course, until it runs too far ; nnd tlien the poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitude of pleasing by flattery... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 508 páginas
...an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of onr own, and collect a little from strangers: this prepares...ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength aud sublimity *ere to be lowered and weakened by it. Speaking to the people, I use the people's phraseology:... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 páginas
...Savage Landor : " Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."*... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 páginas
...Savage Landor : " Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."*... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 páginas
...Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life ami. spirit of language ; and none ever cutoitained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 70 páginas
...says of them : " Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered by it." Young writers are prone to reject the idioms of their mother-tongue, and frequently prefer... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 580 páginas
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitnde of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft ; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 páginas
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. CCXLIV. — OF QUOTATION. Lucian. Before I let fall a quotation I must be taken IL by surprise. I seldom... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 páginas
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. CCXLIV.—OF QUOTATION. Lucian. Before I let fall a quotation I must be taken by surprise. I seldom... | |
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