 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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...combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to t!.e elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.1 When common words... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 400 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 SamUer, 'I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...imr present refinement, and it Is with truth that he observes of his Bambler. "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 iUoadencos."— ISAAC... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 pages
...mark on the English language. It was not without reason that speaking of what he had done, he said: "Something perhaps I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." If he was too fond of words of foreign origin, he resisted the inroad of foreign idioms. No one could... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...stateliness and a preponderance of Latin words. " I have labored," he says in 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,... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 316 pages
...sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. am er. j have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...its construction, and something to the harmony of it cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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 to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentiousidioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 pages
...[Kid., p. 08; Anecdotes by Mrs. Piozzi, p. 233.] purity and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." In what particular he could imagine that he had refined the language of Dryden, Swift, and Addison... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 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,... | |
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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... 
