 ... who corrupt our English idiom, by mixing it too much with French : That is a sophistication of language, not an improvement of it ; a turning English into French, rather than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value...  The North British Review - Sayfa 411869Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 sayfa
...preceding phraseology was as much sanctioned by the ordinary usage of the time, as the double comparative. they cannot express their meaning in English, because...of the last edition ; without considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 sayfa
...preceding phraseology was as much sanctioned by the ordinary usage of the time, as the double comparative. they cannot express their meaning in English, because...of the last edition ; without considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 sayfa
...considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these arc not the men who arc to refine us; their talent is to prescribe fashions, not words: at best they arc only serviceable to a writer, so as Ennius was to Virgil. He may aurum ex ttercore coll\gere\ for... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...the last edition ; without considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 468 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...the last edition ; without considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...of the last edition ; without considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us; their... | |
 | 1869 - 862 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...of the last edition, without considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own ; but these are not the men who are to refine us. Their... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 sayfa
...a refining of s ft English by French. We meet daily with those/ fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...the last edition ; without' considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...the last edition ; without considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 sayfa
...than a refining of English by French. \Ve meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their...of the last edition ; without considering that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own. But these are not the men who are to refine us ; their... | |
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