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... Miscellanies of literature - Seite 358von Isaac Disraeli - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| British essayists - 1802 - 266 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| 1803 - 268 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 Seiten
...and it is with truth he observes of his Humbler, " that he had laboured to refine our language t,. grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...construction, and to the harmony of its cadence." This refinement in style Johnson appears partly to have borrowed from the most elegant French writers,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps) I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of Us construction, and something to the harmony of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 Seiten
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 Seiten
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 Seiten
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
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