 | University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 pages
...DICTION If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, ;; certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial...language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be... | |
 | Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 168 pages
...is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language...as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood, without... | |
 | Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 738 pages
...Literature, 232. expected quarter. He twice quotes no less a Latinist than Dr. Johnson to this effect: "There is in every nation a style which never becomes...obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...there is, in every nation,\ a stile which never becomes /obsolete, a certain mode oi~pHraleoIogy"so 'consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles...among [ those who speak only to be understood, without am|^ bition of elegance. The polite are always catching " modish innovations, and the learned depart... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
.... If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete . . . this style is probably to be sought in the common...only to be understood, without ambition of elegance." Wordsworth, then, was quite in agreement with Johnson that the poet properly concerns himself with... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 pages
...uniform simplicity of primitive qualities, and above all, their 'mode of phraseology' is derived from the common intercourse of life, among those who speak...only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. In tragedy on the other hand Shakespeare allowed himself to be seduced by 'some idle conceit, or contemptible... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...intended to be grammatical ', and he writes admirably of ' a style which never becomes obsolete. . . . This style is probably to be sought in the common...only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.' But he stops short at that. This 'conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1985 - 188 pages
...and who praised Shakespeare's comedie style because it achieved a middling bourgeois currency — "a common intercourse of life, among those who speak...only to be understood, without ambition of elegance ... a conversation above grossness and below refinement." Let us add that his wellknown appeals to... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy2 and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered;3 this stile... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 pages
...positions Shakespeare as the mediating term: If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be... | |
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If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style... 
