 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 sayfa
...are continually " afraid of committing gross blunders ; and, when an easy, familiar, idioma" tical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ig" norance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave,, of " his language, and wields... | |
 | 1832 - 734 sayfa
...Letter to Lord Glenbervie, in Korbes'i Life of Beatlie. 1832.] continually afraid of committing yrosi blunders; and, when an easy, familiar, idiomatical...no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, tee handle English, as a person who cannot fence handles a sword ; continually afraid of hurting ourselves... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1912 - 304 sayfa
...and smells of the lamp. We are slaves to the language we write, and are continually afraid of making gross blunders, and when an easy, familiar, idiomatical...recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms... . An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields it gracefully... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 sayfa
...elegant English authors. Our style is stately and unwieldy, and clogs the tongue in pronunciatinn, and smells of the lamp. We are slaves to the language...with it, or letting it fall, or making some awkward motinn that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learoing is the mastcr, not the slave... | |
 | Richard B. Sher - 2008 - 842 sayfa
...publish a book titled Scoticisms in 1787, "is to give a vernacular cast to the English we write. ... In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance."12 Hume did his best to purge Scotticisms from the books of William Robertson, Thomas Reid,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 368 sayfa
...committing gross " blunders ; and, when an easy, femiliar, idiomatic:]" phrase " occurs, dare riot adopt it, if we recollect no authority, " for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, me handle English, as " a person who cannot fence handles a sword ; continually " afraid of hurting... | |
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We are slaves to the language we write, and are continually afraid of committing gross blunders ; and, when an easy, familiar, idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English,... 