 English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation...  The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century - Page 76by Henry Grey Graham - 1906 - 545 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Rogers - Scotland - 1884 - 436 pages
...Samuel Johnson writes : " The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect...rustic even to themselves. The great, the learned and the ambitious, and the vain all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1896 - 556 pages
...conversation of the Scots," quoth he, rather patronisingly, " grows every day less unpleasant to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect...ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase and the English pronunciation ; and in splendid company Scotch is not much heard, except now... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - Poets, Scottish - 1898 - 170 pages
...Even sagacious Dr. Samuel Johnson ventured to prophesy, though he did not know, that ' The Scottish dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic even to themselves.' * These Titanic blunderings explain how conventionalism was for the time enthroned ; how pseudo-pastorals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect...ambitious,. and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing • to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...acts removed forever. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their peculiarities wear fast away; their dialect...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...standards. He comments: "The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their peculiarities wear fast away; their dialect...ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...Islands of Scotland 51:32 The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their peculiarities wear fast away; their dialect...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...Edinburgh, he writes: The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their peculiarities wear fast away; their dialect...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio - History - 2000 - 386 pages
...concerning everything from turnips that will produce fodder for hungry sheep and cows, to the language: "The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now... | |
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