 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
 | 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 something; to... | |
 | 1859 - 650 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 something to... | |
 | 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 - 584 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 something to... | |
 | 1859 - 578 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 something to... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 202 páginas
...style of every prose writer since his time. His object may be best expressed in his own words : " He laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and he has added to the elegance of its... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 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 - 1889 - 294 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 - 1889 - 316 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... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 páginas
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavored 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." (Could anything be more Johnsonese than... | |
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