 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 páginas
...tragedy. **) The language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last .... Let us consider in what the refinement of a language...are more proper, more sounding, and more significant .... Let any man who understands English, read diligently the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 páginas
...complains, under the person ofSecundus, in his famous dialogue De Causis corruptce Eloquentice* But, to show that our language is improved, and that those people...custom only, and, as I may say, without any fault 01 theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...But, to show that our language is improved, * [Not now generally thought to be Quintilian's. — ED.] and that those people have not a just value for the...custom only, and, as I may say, without any fault 01 theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 páginas
...» 3 3 The language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last . . . Let us consider in what the refinement of a language...phrases which are ill sounding or improper, or in admiting new, which are more proper, more souding, and more significant . . . Let any man who understands... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 páginas
...principally consists ; that is, " either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are illsounding or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, «nd more significant." . . . Let any man, who understands English, read diligently the works of Shakespeare... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 páginas
...complains, under the person otSecundus, in his famous dialogue De Causis corruptce Eloquentice* But, to show that our language is improved, and that those people...fault of theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases, which are rejected, happen to be improper.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...complains, under the person ofSecundus, in his famous dialogue De Causis corruptce Eloquentice* But, to show that our language is improved, and that those people...custom only, and, as I may say, without any fault 01 theirs. For in this case the refinement can be but accidental ; that is, when the words and phrases,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 páginas
...have not a just value for the age in which they live, let us consider in what the refinement of a 25 language principally consists : that is, either in...reader will easily take notice, that when I speak 30 of rejecting improper words and phrases, I mention not such as are antiquated by custom only, and,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 páginas
...consider in what the refinement of a ; language principally consists : that is, either in refecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding,...reader will easily take notice, that when I speak 3° of rejecting improper words and phrases, I mention not such as are antiquated by custom only, and,... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 570 páginas
...live, let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists: that is, either 40 in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are...fault of theirs; for in this case the refinement can be but accidental; that is, when the words and phrases which are rejected happen to be improper. Neither... | |
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... either in rejecting such old words, or phrases, which are ill sounding, or improper; or in admitting new, which are more proper, more sounding, and more significant. 
