 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagina’s
...fixed Sydney's Work for the Boundary, beyond which I make few Excurfions. From the Authours which rofe in the Time of Elizabeth, a Speech might be formed adequate to all the Purpofes of Ufe and Elegance. If the Lar.guage of Theology were extracted from Hooker and the Tranflation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...ought to be our endeavour to recall it, by making our ancient volumes the groundwork of style. . . . From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance.' Johnson's Works, v. pp. 31, 39. See/w/, May 12, 1778. * If Johnson sometimes indulged his Brownism... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...ought to be our endeavour to recall it, by making our ancient volumes the groundwork of style. . . . From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance.' Johnson's Works, v. pp. 31, 39. See post, May 12, 1778. • If Johnson sometimes indulged his Brouinism... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pagina’s
...confining him to that of common life, is nothing to our present purpose) : ' From the authors,' says he, ' which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might...language ' of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators ' of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the ' phrases of policy, war,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1804 - 620 pagina’s
...of any tiling belonging to the northern part of die United Kingdom. " From die authors," says he, " which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." Now let any one compare the Scotch and English writers in the time of queen Elizabedi, and say which... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 258 pagina’s
...by S. Johnson as the pure and genuine sourees of our language ; and he observes that, from them, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." In no period, however, was a language made " a gallimaufrey, or hodge-podge of all other speeches,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pagina’s
...too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's works for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the tirse of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 246 pagina’s
...Style, Sentiment, and Imagery. As to language, it has been very justly remarked by Johnson, that " from the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance*." This acknowledgment of the Doctor's is confirmed by Dryden: in bis Essay on Dramatic Poesie, speaking... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pagina’s
...of style, expression's every grace, Each elegance of speech, 'tis his to trace ; beth," says he, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use, and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible... | |
 | George Miller - 1824 - 546 pagina’s
...interesting period, that Johnson * has declared his opinion, that from the authors which rose in her time, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. Nor should we forget, that to her protecting care, extended to this countiy, then sunk in barbarism,... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. 
