The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right. But there is a conversation above... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 90de Samuel Johnson - 1806Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...converfation above grofmefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...converfation above grofinefs and below refinement, where propriety relides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. Ibid. STYLE. The polite are always catching at modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or makingbetter. But propriety resides in that kind of conversation which is above... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when tbe vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dia-f logue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears o the present age than any other author... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...always catching modish innovations; and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction,...below refinement, where propriety resides, and where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...making better; those who wish for distinction forsake thu vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...there is a conversation above grossness, and below VOJL. II. L refinerefinement, where propriety resides, and where tin's poet seems to have gathered... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...vulgar is right: but there is a conversation above crossness ana below refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope »t finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is... | |
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