 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony...  Miscellanies of literature - Page 358by Isaac Disraeli - 1840Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 268 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...and it is with truth he observes of his Humbler, " that he had laboured to refine our language t,. grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...construction, and to the harmony of its cadence." This refinement in style Johnson appears partly to have borrowed from the most elegant French writers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 354 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps) I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 278 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of Us construction, and something to the harmony of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured," he remarks in his concluding Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
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