 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 - 2008 - 380 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. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - 664 pages
...of fashion ; and this lives on in the mouths of the people. "The polite," he continues, "are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart...refinement where propriety resides, and where this poet (Shakespeare) seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears... | |
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