 | 1850 - 638 pagina’s
...navigation from Raleigh, the dialect ' of poetry from Spenser and Sydney, and the diction of com' mon life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind...of English words in which they might be expressed.' Now the bulk of this language is, and has ever been, Saxon ; at the same time, the obligations to Greek... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Slmkspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed. Preface to Johnfon's JDi&ionaiy, p. 74. The affluence and comprehension of our language is- very illustriously... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pagina’s
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and...which they effected in the diction of their fathers, they are still, in their prose compositions, abundantly quaint, uncouth, and tedious. They pared away,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pagina’s
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from RaJeigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shaksptare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pagina’s
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pagina’s
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a periodical publication, therefo.re, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pagina’s
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a. periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pagina’s
...not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that '.' fcw ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed." * In a periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pagina’s
...fiction from Sjienser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from ShaksJieare, few ideas Vould be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pagina’s
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spen&r and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
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Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and... 
