 There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.  Lives - Σελίδα 205των Samuel Johnson - 1800Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors : ed to act plays, " writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest ai once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of trnns appropriated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors : H "6 184 groseness of domestic use, anil free from the harshness of tenus appropri •ted to puticidu •rtc.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846
...rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of self-rtion was little knov/n to our authors : our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion ; and every man took for every purpose what chance mig'it offW him. There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...took for every purpose what chance might offer him. of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 435 σελίδες
...little known to our authors : our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion ; and every man toot for every purpose what chance might offer him. "There...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors: our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion;...for every purpose what chance might offer him. There waa therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from... | |
 | 1858
...distinction of these different parts arises a great part of the beauty of style. . . . "There was, before the time of Dryden, no poetical diction; no...system of words, at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 σελίδες
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshuess of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
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