 The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages, have a great...  The Spectator - Seite 1341738Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 Seiten
...this we may thank Adam.' The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator when it has been debased by common use. For this reason, the works of ancient authors, which are 20 written in dead... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 236 Seiten
...this we may thank Adam.' The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator when it has been debased by common use. For this reason, the works of ancient authors, which are 20 written in dead... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 Seiten
...to artistic debasement. " The great masters of composition know rery well that many an elegant word becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by vulgar use." — ADDISOX. DEPOSE (Fr. deposer) expresses the formal act of authority or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 Seiten
...this we may thank Adam." " The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by 5 common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...for a poet or Phrases an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For conmion uL this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages, have a great advantage over those which are written in languages that are now spoken. . . . It is not therefore sufficient, that... | |
 | 1917 - 220 Seiten
...this we may thank Adam. The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator when it has been debased by common use The judgment of a poet very much discovers itself in shunning the common roads... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 Seiten
...we may thank Adam . . . The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages,... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 Seiten
...we may thank Adam — - The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 Seiten
...474-6; V, 395-7; X, 733-6] The great Masters in Composition know very well that many an elegant Phrase becomes improper for a Poet or an Orator, when it has been debased by common Use. For this Reason the Works of Antient Authors, which are written in dead Languages,... | |
 | Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet - 1928 - 586 Seiten
...literary products of today. "The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages,... | |
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