 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 páginas
...style, admitting among the additions of later times only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms." In his preface to the Works of Shakspeare, we also find the following... | |
 | Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher - 1854 - 592 páginas
...only four in all his writings. His rule was, "to admit only such as may supply real deficienccs, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idiom." If a little license l>e granted, how will you define its limits ? How... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...antecedent to perfection, as well as of false refinement and declension, I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have 25 fixed Sidney's work for the boundary,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...style, admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms. 20 But as every language has a time of rudeness antecedent to perfection,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 páginas
...style, admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms. But as every language has a time of rudeness antecedent to perfection,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 páginas
...antecedent to perfection, as well as of false refinement and declension, I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 páginas
...the body of the Dictionary, on the principle expressed in the Preface : " I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too...remote, and croud my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions." Thus... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 páginas
...antecedent to perfection, as well as of false refinement and declension, I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond... | |
 | 1853 - 640 páginas
...four in all his writings. His rule was, " to admit only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idiom." If a little license he granted, how will you define its limits ? How... | |
 | 1909 - 498 páginas
...real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of bur tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms. But as every language has a time of rudeness antecedent to perfection, as well as of false refinement and declension, I have been cautious... | |
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... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms. 
