...endeavours to improve his native language, by the formation of a more correct and dignified style. " 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...

...betrachteten, steht Dr. Samuel Johnson, der sich in bezug auf sein Wörterbuch folgendes Ziel gesteckt hatte: to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious Idioms, and irregulär combinations. (Smith 1925:264) 7 ZB Ball (1958), Clark...

...authority of Johnsonian English is split apart. Yet it is striking to see how far, having labored in public "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations" (Rambler 108, v, 318-19), the Johnson of...

...conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library. in The Rambler no. 106 (23 March 1751) 22 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. in The Rambler no. 208 (14 March 1752) 23...

...language so that it could become as fit a vehicle for high thoughts as Latin. Johnson claimed that he had 'laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms and irregular combinations' (Rambler, 14 March 1752). Swift, developing...

...improvise. Otto Jespersen, 1946, 'Standards of Correctness', in Mankind, Nation and Individual, Ch. 5 8:39 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Samuel Johnson, 14 March 1752, The Rambler,...

...language was of paramount importance in the eighteenth century. Johnson (1752: 395) tells his readers that 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...

...was obvious even in his lighter passages. Concluding The Rambler, Johnson stated that he had labored "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." If this had been the only achievement of...

...Renaissance concern with linguistic purity; we can hear it clearly in Johnson's declaration that he has "laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.'"7 As England began searching for its own...

...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. The Rambler. 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...