 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 522 σελίδες
...fell into an age," continues Johnson, " in which our language began to lose the stability which it obtained in the time of Elizabeth ; and was considered...every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill by moulding it according to his own fancy. Milton, in consequence of this encroaching... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 σελίδες
...art. "He fell into an age," says Johnson, "in which our language began to lose the stability which it obtained in the time of Elizabeth ; and was considered...every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. Milton, in consequence of this encroaching... | |
 | 1903 - 548 σελίδες
...art. "He fell into an age," says Johnson, "in which our language began to lose the stability which it obtained in the time of Elizabeth; and was considered...every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill by molding it according to his own fancy. Milton, in consequence of this encroaching... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 614 σελίδες
...Inquiry into Vulgar Errours, published amid the clash of arms in 1646. Johnson observes justly : ' He fell into an age in which our language began to lose...skill by moulding it according to his own fancy.' He has, Prof. Spalding observes, ' all the distinctive characteristics of the last age of the Old English... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 σελίδες
..." He fell into an age," says Johnson, " in which our language began to lose the stability which it obtained in the time of Elizabeth; and was considered...every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. Milton, in consequence of this encroaching... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 σελίδες
...thro' his mazes, in themselves flowery and pleasing, and ending at the point originally in view. ... He fell into an age in which our language began to lose the stability which it obtained in the time of Elizabeth; and was considered by every writer as a subject on which he might... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 σελίδες
...innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy. Language, he adds, was in Browne's time ' considered by every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy.' This could scarcely be better said ; and... | |
 | 1924 - 978 σελίδες
...literature for sustained majesty of eloquence. Johnson says of this fellow-collegian of his that he fell into an age in which our language began to lose...his plastick skill by moulding it according to his fancy. As the century went on writers and speakers seem to have had trouble with the syntax of their... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2008 - 207 σελίδες
...not please; it commands, but does not allure: his tropes are harsh, and his combinations uncouth. He fell into an age, in which our language began to lose...by moulding it according to his own fancy. Milton took the first liberty, and Browne seconded him: Milton, in consequence of this encroaching licence,... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 σελίδες
...Inquiry into Vulgar Errours, published amid the clash of arms in 1646. Johnson observes justly : ' He fell into an age in which our language began to lose...skill by moulding it according to his own fancy.' He has, Prof. Spalding observes, ' all the distinctive characteristics of the last age of the Old English... | |
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He fell into an age in which our language began to lose the stability which it had obtained in the time of Elizabeth ; and was considered by every writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy.... 
