If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour,... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Página 3321850Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 páginas
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...227. 'Words are not so easily coined as money.' Ib, p. 224. See ante, MILTON, 270. Johnson attacks translators ' whose idleness and ignorance, if it...to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.1 Works, v. 49. s 'When Garrick was extolling Dryden in a rapture that I suppose disgusted his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor, with all their in- 10 fluence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| 1910 - 482 páginas
...liberty will hinder or destroy — let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...liberty will hinder or destroy — let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains' but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, it it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, it it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, it it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| 1909 - 498 páginas
...liberty will hinder or destroy — let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
| W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 páginas
...grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translatours, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
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