 If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered...  The Study and practice of writing English - Page 154by Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1914 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every cation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode...and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life ; among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life; among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...find the following very applicable sentiments : — " I believe there is in every nation a style that never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. The polite are always catching... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete,...and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is in every cation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode...and unaltered, this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of ather poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. 11. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...and unaltered, this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
 | Amos Bronson Alcott - Fiction - 1872 - 300 pages
...from Gower and Chaucer down to our time. " If there be, what I believe there is," saj's Dr. Johnson, " in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so component and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...offered his house to sale, carried a brick in- his pocket as a specimen. (His style never obsolete.) If there be, what I believe there is in every nation,...and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood without ambition of... | |
 | John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 508 pages
...him in this kind of air. It is said there is in every nation a style both in speaking and writing, which never becomes obsolete; a certain mode of phraseology,...language, as to remain settled and unaltered. § This, but with much greater latitude, may be said of music; and accordingly it may be observed of the compositions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Publishers' bindings - 1875 - 306 pages
...And observe that all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words. Dr. Johnson said, "There is in every nation a style which never becomes...obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style... | |
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