 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - Liczba stron: 290
...authority of Johnsonian English is split apart. Yet it is striking to see how far, having labored in public "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations" (Rambler 108, v, 318-19), the Johnson of... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Liczba stron: 1160
...conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library. in The Rambler no. 106 (23 March 1751) 22 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. in The Rambler no. 208 (14 March 1752) 23... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - 1999 - Liczba stron: 230
...language so that it could become as fit a vehicle for high thoughts as Latin. Johnson claimed that he had 'laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms and irregular combinations' (Rambler, 14 March 1752). Swift, developing... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Liczba stron: 604
...improvise. Otto Jespersen, 1946, 'Standards of Correctness', in Mankind, Nation and Individual, Ch. 5 8:39 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Samuel Johnson, 14 March 1752, The Rambler,... | |
 | Richard J. Watts, Peter Trudgill - 2002 - Liczba stron: 298
...language was of paramount importance in the eighteenth century. Johnson (1752: 395) tells his readers that 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... | |
 | G. R. R. Treasure - 2002 - Liczba stron: 550
...was obvious even in his lighter passages. Concluding The Rambler, Johnson stated that he had labored "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." If this had been the only achievement of... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - Liczba stron: 244
...Renaissance concern with linguistic purity; we can hear it clearly in Johnson's declaration that he has "laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.'"7 As England began searching for its own... | |
 | Liczba stron: 314
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. The Rambler. 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... | |
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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... 
