 ... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language....  Mrs. Jordan - Strona 20autor: James Boadan - 1800Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Richard Sharp - 1835 - Liczba stron: 238
...of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true, that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the neces* sities which make ' ambition virtue ;' but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - Liczba stron: 646
...and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have here and there (much more rarely however than others of great and not unmerited fame) fallen... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - Liczba stron: 548
...of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true, that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have, here and there, (much more rarely, however, than others of great and not unmerited fame,)... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - Liczba stron: 556
...appropriate to our language. It is true, that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorta, uul common language becomes unequal to the demands of...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have, here and there, (much more rarely, however, than others of great and not unmerited fame,)... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - Liczba stron: 548
...and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...necessities which make ' ambition virtue.' But the allowance to necessities ought not to grow into a practice." Mr. Dugald Stewart, in commenting upon... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1984 - Liczba stron: 512
...extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make 'Ambition Virtue:'5 but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. It you have here and there (much more rarely, however, than others of great and not unmerited fame)... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1984 - Liczba stron: 512
...frippery and tinsel' (J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds . . . , 2nd ed., London, 1818, n, 31). common language becomes unequal to the demands of...be conceded to the necessities which make 'Ambition Virtue:'5 but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies... | |
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