Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 44
... language of Provence was already the language of the learned and polite , and was employed by numerous writers , studious of all the arts of composition and versification . A literature rich in ballads , in war - songs , in satire , and ...
... language of Provence was already the language of the learned and polite , and was employed by numerous writers , studious of all the arts of composition and versification . A literature rich in ballads , in war - songs , in satire , and ...
Page 300
... language of diplomacy ; it was the language of theological and political controversy . Being a fixed language , while the living languages were in a state of fluctuation , and being universally known to the learned and the polite , it ...
... language of diplomacy ; it was the language of theological and political controversy . Being a fixed language , while the living languages were in a state of fluctuation , and being universally known to the learned and the polite , it ...
Page 560
... language , in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse , in a language in which nobody ever quarrels , or drives bargains , or makes love , in a language in which nobody ever thinks . It is clear that Johnson himself ...
... language , in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse , in a language in which nobody ever quarrels , or drives bargains , or makes love , in a language in which nobody ever thinks . It is clear that Johnson himself ...
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