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" If 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 the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered; this style... "
Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare - Page 106
edited by - 1903 - 358 pages
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or irtakirig better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the...
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The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel ...

William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...unaltered; this ftyle is probably to be fought in the common intercourfc of life, among thofe who (peak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modifli innovations, and the learned depart from eftabliflied forms of fpeech, in hope of finding or...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. Ibid. STYLE. The polite are always catching at modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or makingbetter. But propriety resides in that kind of conversation which is above...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when tbe vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are alway catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...making better; those who wish for distinction forsake thu vulgar, when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 558 pages
...consonant and congenial to the principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered. The polite are always catching modish innovations;...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes 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.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...there is a conversation above grossness, and below VOJL. II. L refinerefinement, where propriety resides, and where tin's poet seems to have gathered...
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Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to Ire understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who...vulgar is right: but there is a conversation above crossness ana below refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered...
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