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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various ... - Page 123
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a. style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of" phraseology so consonant and congenial to...in the common intercourse of life, among those who speakonly to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve ..., Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...If there be, what I believe there is in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certam mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in liope of finding or making better ; those .who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the ar.alugy and principles of its re-spective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; th',4 style is probably to be soi/ght in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 95, Part 1

Early English newspapers - 1825 - 970 pages
...there be, what 1 believe there is, JL in every nation, astyle which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar...
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