 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...exhibits them. The accidental compositions of heterogeneous modes are dissolved by the chance which combined them ; but the uniform simplicity of primitive...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 - 1823 - 436 pages
...washing the dissoluble fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. 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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...washing the dissoluble fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...If there be, what I believe there is in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certam mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...always continues in its place. The stream of time, which is 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...Shnkespeare, ip 71. — Ed. mi. v. i poets, passes, without injury, by the adamant of Shakespeareb. 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 - 1825 - 504 pages
...Shakespeare, ip 71. — Ed. VOL. r. I poets, passes, without injury, by the adamant of Shakespeare11. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...common intercourse of life, among those who speak ' i ' only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 726 pages
...Mr. URBAN, Kellington, March 31. "IF there be, what I believe there is, JL in every nation, astyle 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...always continues in its place. The stream ol time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant...phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principle« of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there i», in every nation, a style which never becomes ob>»lete, greet him ; Ay, quoth Jaques, Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens ; 'Tisjust iu the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of... | |
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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... 
