... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope... Essays and Addresses - Seite 500von Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 648 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or irtakirig better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. Ibid. STYLE. The polite are always catching at modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or makingbetter. But propriety resides in that kind of conversation which is above... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are alway catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when tbe vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dia-f logue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears o the present... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...making better; those who wish for distinction forsake thu vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 Seiten
...congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. The polite are always catching modish innovations; and the 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 Seiten
...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned...refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present... | |
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