 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1825 - 66 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 702 pagina’s
...rather than the ear, •with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | 1833 - 744 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or, indeed, apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 642 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 514 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexjons, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 626 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 382 pagina’s
...eye rather thart the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion, as so many inaccuracies,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 630 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...ignorant of the whole of its rules, and incapable of VOL. II. — 11 relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 442 pagina’s
...eye rather than the ear, with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace those of our own Saxon, instead of temperately supplying...relishing the beauties, or indeed apprehending the very genius of the language, should treat its peculiar terms of expression and flexion as so many inaccuracies,... | |
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French in the phrase, and to mere figures fantastically sacrificing the sense— now heavily and regularly fashioned as if by the plumb and rule, and by the eye rather than the ear, •with a needless profusion of ancient words and flexions, to displace... 
