 | 1850 - 638 pages
...nothing to our present purpose) : ' From the authors,' says he, ' which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed ' adequate to all the purposes...language ' of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators ' of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the ' phrases of policy, war,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...the , time of Queen Elizabeth, that a speech might be formed adequate to- all the purposes of life, If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker,...from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Slmkspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...northern part of die United Kingdom. " From die authors," says he, " which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed, adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." Now let any one compare the Scotch and English writers in the time of queen Elizabedi, and say which... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...criticism, the age of Queen Elizabeth has been fixed upon as the period when our language, shaking off with gigantic strength the incumbrances of rude...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...boundary, beyond which I imke few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elisabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from RaJeigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...by S. Johnson as the pure and genuine sourees of our language ; and he observes that, from them, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." In no period, however, was a language made " a gallimaufrey, or hodge-podge of all other speeches,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the tirse of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Sjienser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from ShaksJieare, few ideas Vould be lost to mankind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursipns. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...Raleigh -, the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spen&r and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...incorporate easily with our native idioms. " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare;— few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words in which they... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge... 
