 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 622 pages
...the final sentence of mankmd, Ï have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarised... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 462 pages
...catch the subtle graces of Addison. At the conclusion of the Rambler, he boasts that " he has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." G The result of his labour is awkward statelincss and irksome uniformity. In his dread of incongruous... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...OBSERVATIONS ON STYLE. The celebrated author of the Rambler, in his concluding paper, says, " I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." I hope our language hath gained all the profit which the labors of this meritorious writer were exerted... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...OBSERVATIONS ON STYLE. The celebrated author of the Rambler, in his coneluding paper, says, "I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...combinations : something perhaps I have added to the eleganee of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadenee." I hope our language hath... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1853 - 510 pages
...of our present refinement, and it is with truth he ohserves of his Ramhler, " That he had lahoured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial harharisms, licentious idioms, and irregular comhinations, and that he has added to the elegance of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 pages
...our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his " Kambler," " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction and to the harmony of its cadence." In this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...final number of the 'Rambler,' he takes especial credit for his style. 'I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...final number of the 'Rambler,' he takes especial credit for his style. 'I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and somethingto the harmony of... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...final number of the 'Rambler,' he takes especial credit for his style. 'I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...final number of the ' Rambler,' he takes, especial credit for his style. ' I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
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I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... 
