 | Amos Bronson Alcott - Authors, American - 1872 - 300 pages
..." 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...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of eloquence. The polite are always catching modish expressions, and... | |
 | 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,...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Sh:ik^peare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the annlogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...always continues in its place. The stream of time, which U continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - American literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode...intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1908 - 610 pages
...Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare, in which he is discussing the language of Shakespeare's comedies : If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...and unaltered, this style is probably to be sought for in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten. Rambler, NO. iai. • • • IF there be, what I believe there is, in every nation...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...forgotten. Rambler, No. 121. • • • IF there be, what I believe there is, in every nation a style 278 which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language, as to remain ; settled and unaltered ; this stile is probably to be sought II in the common intercourse .of life, among those who speak only to... | |
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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 : this style... 
