 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
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1908 - 610 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 dialogue. "A conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides," what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 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...refinement where propriety resides, and where this poet1 seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 pages
...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but...grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides." But all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 280 pages
...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but...grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides." But all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 634 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...conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides, and where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. Goethe valued himself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 686 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...conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides, and where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. Goethe valued himself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 634 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...conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides, and where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. Goethe valued himself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 630 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...wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vnlgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 496 pages
...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but...grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides." But all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but...grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides." But all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much... | |
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