 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 562 pages
...conversation with those authors of our own, who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write and speak, your Lordship...put to a stand in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 500 pages
...conversation with those authors of our own, who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write and speak, your lordship...put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism;... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pages
...he makes this observation; " How barbarously we yet write and speak, yoiir lordship knows, and lam sufficiently sensible in my own English; for I am...in considering whether what I write is the idiom of tiie tongue, or false grammar and nonsense couched under the specious name of angiicism.' 1 Yours,... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 pages
...for in his dedication of Troilus and Cressida to the Earl of Sundcrland, be makes this observation: " How barbarously we yet write and speak, your lordship...I am sufficiently sensible in my own English; for 1 ain often put to a stand in considering whether what I write is the idiom of the tongue, or false... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 pages
...conversation with those authors of our own, who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write and speak, your lordship...put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...the pattern of good English. In dedicating to the Earl of Sunderland his ' Troilus and Cressida,' he says, " How barbarously we yet write and speak your...put to a stand in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar and nonsense couched beneath that VOL. I. F specious name... | |
 | 1868 - 690 pages
...conversation with those authors of our own who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write and speak your Lordship...put to a stand in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...own who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write aud speak your Lordship knows, and I am sufficiently sensible...put to a stand in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar and non* More than half a century later, Orrery, in his... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...conversation with those authors of our own who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously we yet write and speak your Lordship knows, and I am sufficiently sensible in my own English.2 For I am 1 Preface to Fables. 2 More than half a century later, Orrery, in his "Remarks"... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 402 pages
...authors of our own who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse. But how barbarously wo yet write and speak your Lordship knows, and I am...put to a stand in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar and nou• More than half a century later, Orrery, in... | |
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I am often put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism; and have no other way to clear my doubts, but by translating my English, into Latin,... 
