 | 1829 - 520 pages
...contributed ; for, composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much...for half a century seated themselves on the bench of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular Ku^lish of Addison and Swift. Our journals, indeed,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 488 pages
...contributed; for composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much...for half a century seated themselves on the bench of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular English of Addison and Swift. Our journals, indeed,... | |
 | 1829 - 516 pages
...contributed ; for, composing in a langage which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much...others, who for half a century seated themselves on the Ы-nch of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular English of Addison and Swift. Our journals,... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...later times, have corrupted our idiom as much as, in early ones, they enriched our vocabulary : and to this injury the Scotch have greatly contributed...; for, composing in a* language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much through... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 pages
...later times, have corrupted our idiom as much as, in early ones, they enriched our vocabulary ; and to this injury, the Scotch have greatly contributed ; for composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much through... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 pages
...later times, have corrupted our idiom as much as, in early ones, they enriched our vocabulary ; and to this injury, the Scotch have greatly contributed ; for composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much through... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1831 - 488 pages
...the Scotch have greatly contributed : for composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquire an artificial and formal...for half a century seated themselves on the bench of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular English of Addison and Swift. Our journals, indeed,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1848 - 426 pages
...Scotch have greatly contributed, — for, composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquire an artificial and formal...for half a century seated themselves on the bench of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular English of Addison and Swift. Our journals, indeed,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...Scotch have greatly contrihuted, — for, composing in a language which is not tlicir mother tongue, they necessarily acquire an artificial and formal...others, who for half a century seated themselves on the hench of criticism, has almost superseded the vernacular English of Addison and Swift. Our journals,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...later times, have corrupted our idiom as much as, in early ones, they enriched our vocabulary; and to this injury the Scotch have greatly contributed; for, composing in a language which is not their mother tongue, they necessarily acquired an artificial and formal style, which, not so much through... | |
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More lasting effect was produced by translators, who, in later times, have corrupted our idiom as much as, in early ones, they enriched our vocabulary; and to this injury the Scotch have greatly contributed : for composing in a language which is not their... 
