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" 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... "
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy - Página 34
de Royal Irish Academy - 1787
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volumen 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 páginas
...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...
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Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a ...

Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 páginas
...is much less 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." The result of his labour is awkward stateliness...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

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...
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Miscellanies of Literature

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...
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The Literary Character: Or, The History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their ...

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...
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Quarterly Review, Volumen 105

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen 105

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen 105

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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The London Quarterly Review, Volúmenes 105-106

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...
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