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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare - Page 106
edited by - 1903 - 358 pages
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this .nyle is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope »t finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled or unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. v The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...language, as to remain settled and unaltered; (, ,.' this style is probably to be sought in the common1 . intercourse of life, among those who speak only ,'...' to be understood, without ambition of elegance. K The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of «;legance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established...
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Philological tracts, &c

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but therejgj^conversajian above"). grossness, and _bek>w_ refinement, where propriety /I resides, and where...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...learned depart from established forms of speech, in liope of finding or making better ; those .who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...its re-spective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; th',4 style is probably to be soi/ght in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be underlined, wilh ,ut ambition of elegance. The polite art always catching modish innovations, and the...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...when the vulgar is right; but there is a conversation abave grossness and below refinernent, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 95, Part 1

1825 - 970 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but there is a language above grossness, and below refinement, where propriety resides." Such are the remarks of Dr....
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