 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pages
...final number of the 'Rambler,' he takes especial credit for his style. 'I have laboured,' he says, ' to refine our language to grammatical purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 202 pages
...every prose writer since his time. His object may be best expressed in his own words : " He laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and he has added to the elegance of its construction and the harmony of its cadence." It is true that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 pages
...of our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his " Rambler," "That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction and to the harmony of its cadence." In this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...partial. Johnson conceived it to be his mission to reform his native tongue, and in his own words, to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious...and irregular combinations. ' Something, perhaps,' he wrote at the end of the Rambler, ' I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 pages
...our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his " Rambler," " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction and to the harmony of its cadence." In this... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 616 pages
...refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his " Rambler," " That he had laboured to refine oar language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction and to the harmony of its cadence." In this... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...i. 218. In the last Rambler, speaking of what he had himself done for our language, he says :.— ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' objected Elphinstoris MARTIAL. objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...218. In the last Rambler, speaking of what he had himself done for our language, he says : — v ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of, its cadence.' objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and bis want of harmony. But he is supported... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.1 When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.1 When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification,... | |
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I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... 
