 If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1511923Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...the dialect ' of poetry from Spenser and Sydney, and the diction of com' mon life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind ' for want of English words in which they might be expressed.' Now the bulk of this language is, and has ever been, Saxon ; at the same time, the obligations to Greek... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Slmkspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed. Preface to Johnfon's JDi&ionaiy, p. 74. The affluence and comprehension of our language is- very illustriously... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed *." This eulogium, however, is excessive; for, though the writers of the Elizabethan age merit much... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common l/fe from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed *." This eulogium, however, is excessive ; for, though the writers of the Elizabethan age merit much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shaksptare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare,...of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a periodical publication, therefo.re, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a. periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that '.' fcw ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed." * In a periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...fiction from Sjienser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from ShaksJieare, few ideas Vould be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
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