 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
...eloquence. No disciple at the footstool is so silent and ductile as I am at the lessons I reoeive ; none attends with such composure, none departs with...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... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 páginas
...daughters of Niobe, though now in smiles, still clinging to their parent. CCXLIII.—OF IDIOM. Demosthenes. I have been careful to retain as much idiom as I could,...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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 páginas
...of Niobe, though now in smiles, still clinging to their parent. CCXLIIL — OF IDIOM. Demosthenes, I have been careful to retain as much idiom as I could,...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... | |
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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... 
