 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
 | Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 211 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 harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | 1882
...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,...purpose what chance might offer him. " There was, then, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 450 σελίδες
...nice 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. From those sounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895
...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,...poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from 10 the grossness of domestick use, and free from the harsh, ness of terms appropriated to particular... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1896
...metre, some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham (2) There was before the time of Dryden no poetical diction; no system of words at once refined from the grossuess of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular use. Words... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 185 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...diction, no system of words at once refined from the gross- 20 ness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903
...rugged metre, some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham. . . . There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. . . . The new versification,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 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 harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 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 harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
 | George Herbert Mair - 1911 - 256 σελίδες
...social usage to the verse in which they wrote and the language they used. "There was," said Dr. Johnson, "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... | |
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