 | 1840 - 876 pagina’s
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semibarbarous...and in proportion to that concern, there will always bo a suitable (and as letters extend, a growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 370 pagina’s
...belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer, through a circuit of pro* digious reading, who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of Eiiglish grammar. Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations, we shall conclude with insisting... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pagina’s
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar. "t The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pagina’s
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...will always be a suitable (and as letters extend, 9, growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing to be equal, the determining principle... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1876 - 530 pagina’s
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar." * The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1879 - 262 pagina’s
...is usually allowed in our American system of education. " It makes us blush," writes De Quincey, " that even grammar is so little of a perfect attainment...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar." Says Professor Marsh : It has been claimed, and ptrhaps upon reasonable grounds, that three fourths... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1880 - 286 pagina’s
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has... | |
 | John Bascom - 1882 - 322 pagina’s
...mercilessly lashed in the Edinburgh Keview. — [Stopford Brook.] 18. With two or three exceptions we have never seen the writer through a circuit of...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. — [De Quincey.] 19. Senex had filled the curacies before he was presented at court, where (in 1832)... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 pagina’s
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 472 pagina’s
...thinking from radical inaptitude in the thinking faculty to connect itself with the feeling and with the creative faculty of the imagination. There are many...Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations^ we v shall conclude with insisting on the growing necessity of style as a practical interest of daily... | |
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It makes us blush to add that even grammar is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with two or three exceptions (one being Shakspere, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age), we have never seen the writer, through... 
