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 205επεξεργασία από - 1800Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1916 - 466 σελίδες
...sentences by semicolons, rather than by full stops, as in the latter part of the following random example: 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. Words too familiar... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1924 - 352 σελίδες
...He continues, expressing a view quite contrary to that of Wordsworth and Rudyard Kipling : 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,... | |
| George Herbert Mair - 1914 - 364 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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