 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...extraordinary circulation. No fewer than ten editions appeared during the author's life. the closing paper, " to refine our language to grammatical purity and to...construction and something to the harmony of its cadence." He lacked the delicate touch of Addison. Of his moral aim he says : " The essays professedly serious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...Plan, written eight years earlier, especially the close. In Rambler 208 (1752) he says: 'I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized... | |
 | 1909 - 616 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have labonred to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'. usf vgl. Raleigh's Leslie Stephen Lecture über Johnson, Oxford 1907, ss. 12 — 13. Sappho to Phaon.... | |
 | 1909 - 304 pages
...illustrate what Johnson means when he speaks, in the last number, of his services to the English language. ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' Later criticism has been inclined to say rather that he subdued the syntax of his native tongue to... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...illustrate what Johnson means when he speaks, in the last number, of his services to the English language. ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' Later criticism has) been inclined to say rather that he subdued the syntax; of his native tongue to... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 pages
...always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.' At this time he was in the midst of a similar and greater task in his Dictionary of the English Language.... | |
 | Yorkshire Dialect Society - 1914 - 98 pages
...and make it conform to certain abstract rules and principles. " I have laboured," Dr. Johnson said, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations."* Intellect ualism of this kind, the desire to force '; grammatical purity," and logical consistency... | |
 | William Hawley Davis - 1916 - 232 pages
...contributions to the development of the essay deserves further consideration. "I have labored," wrote Johnson, "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized... | |
 | 1919 - 496 pages
...stigmatizing them as 'low' and ' ungrammaticar in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'.2 Although this point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree... | |
 | 588 pages
...always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in the midst of a similar and greater task in his Dictionary of the English Language.... | |
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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... 
