...contributions to the development of the essay deserves further consideration. "I have labored," wrote Johnson, "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...

...language, often stigmatizing them as 'low' and ' ungrammaticar in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'.2 Although this point of view is now an...

...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in the midst of a similar...

...puerility, the levity of contempt, and the derision of ridicule.' This is Lexiphanes. 'I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.' That is the Rambler. The trick, though...

...naturally would exercise an important influence on diction. The nature of this influence he describes thus: "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...

...of Frederick the Great, i. 11. 4 Carlyle's essay on Johnson. f II JOHNSON'S STYLE AND MANNERISMS " 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...

...often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 * Although this point of view is now...

...often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 Although this point of view is now an...

...verschwindet nicht ganz aus dem Gesichtskreis. Er klingt wieder an in den Schlußworten des Rambler: l have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations . . . whoever knows the English tongue in...

...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ''to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in the midst of a similar...