 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony...  Tracts on Political and Other Subjects - Página 422de Joseph Towers - 1796Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 páginas
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 páginas
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. nd envy are at an end, we may hope for barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 páginas
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have luhoured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, per! haps, I have added to the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 páginas
...establishment of our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his Rambler, " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 páginas
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankmd, Ï have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 434 páginas
...easy to catch the subtle graces of Addison. At the conclusion of the Rambler, he boasts that " he has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." G The result of his labour is awkward stateliness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...OBSERVATIONS ON STYLE. The celebrated author of the Rambler, in his concluding paper, says, " I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations : something perhaps I have added to the elegance... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1853 - 510 páginas
...of our present refinement, and it is with truth he ohserves of his Ramhler, " That he had lahoured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial harharisms, licentious idioms, and irregular comhinations, and that he has added to the elegance of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 páginas
...establishment of our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his " Kambler," " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...final number of the 'Rambler,' he takes especial credit for his style. 'I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and somethingto the... | |
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