... perfectly free. It is assumed, I know, to give dignity and variety to the style ; but whatever success the attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language.... Mrs. Jordan - Page 20by James Boadan - 1800Full view - About this book
| 1801 - 446 pages
...graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true, that when the exigence lalU jor auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes...demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to bo vol. 2. — NO. 12. 3o . conconceded to the necessities which make " Ambition virtue:" but the allowances... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...natural and appropriate to " our language. It is true, that when the exigence calls for auxi" liaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If " you have, here and there, (much more rarely, however, than " others of great and not unmerited... | |
| William Robertson - 1811 - 468 pages
...something ought to be conceded to. the neccssi" ties which make ' ambition virtue.' But the allowances to B necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those...portents " and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have, " here and there, (much more rarely, however, than others of " great and not unmerited... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 452 pages
...the graces that are natural and " appropriate to our language. It is true that when the " exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common " language becomes unequal to the demands ofextraor" dinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to " the necessities which make ' ambition... | |
| William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 438 pages
...appeared some years ago. I do not find, however, that it has been ever called in question. " exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common " language becomes unequal to the demands of extraojv " dinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the " necessities which make ' ambition... | |
| William Robertson - 1821 - 436 pages
...some years ago. I do not find, however, that it has been ever called in question. VOL. I. N " exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common " language becomes unequal to the demands of extraor" dinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the " necessities which make ' ambition... | |
| William Robertson - 1822 - 506 pages
..." the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true " that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common " language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thourrhtst " something ought to be dinceded to the necessities which make ' ambi" tion virtue. ' But... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and cornmon language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have here and there (much more rarely however than others of great and not unmerited fame) fallen... | |
| sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have here and there (much more rarely however than others of great and not unmerited fame) fallen... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true, that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language...portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have here and there (much more rarely, however, than others of great and not unmerited fame),... | |
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