 What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of our own, and collect a little from strangers : this prepares us for a more intimate union with them, in which...  The Works of Walter Savage Landor - Pagina 88door Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 676 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 534 pagina’s
...last altogether. Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...in its natural course, until it runs too far ; AND EUBULIDES. and then the poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitude of pleasing by... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 540 pagina’s
...last altogether. .Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...weak in its natural course, until it runs too far ; nnd tlien the poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitude of pleasing by flattery... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 508 pagina’s
...an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of onr own, and collect a little from strangers: this prepares...ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength aud sublimity *ere to be lowered and weakened by it. Speaking to the people, I use the people's phraseology:... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pagina’s
...Savage Landor : " Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."*... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pagina’s
...Savage Landor : " Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."*... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pagina’s
...Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life ami. spirit of language ; and none ever cutoitained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. ... Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom."... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 70 pagina’s
...says of them : " Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered by it." Young writers are prone to reject the idioms of their mother-tongue, and frequently prefer... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 580 pagina’s
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitnde of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft ; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 pagina’s
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. CCXLIV. — OF QUOTATION. Lucian. Before I let fall a quotation I must be taken IL by surprise. I seldom... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 pagina’s
...state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation,...and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened by it. CCXLIV.—OF QUOTATION. Lucian. Before I let fall a quotation I must be taken by surprise. I seldom... | |
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