 If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3321850Full view - About this book
 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 324 pages
...of compiling grammars ' and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, ' to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ' ignorance, if...will reduce us to ' babble a dialect of France.' The writer who, as Garrick expressed it with more patriotism than elegance, ' arm'd like a hero of yore,... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 pages
...of compiling grammars ' and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, ' to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ' ignorance, if...will reduce us to ' babble a dialect of France.' The writer who, as Garrick expressed it with more patriotism than elegance, ' arm'd like a hero of yore,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence ol translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble the dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...endeavour with all their influence to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance,if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.' Ib. p. 49. ' I have rarely admitted any words not authorised by former writers ; for I believe that... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...endeavour with all their influence to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance,if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.' Ib. p. 49. ' I have rarely admitted any words not authorised by former writers ; for I believe that... | |
 | English essays - 1888 - 266 pages
...liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators,...will reduce us to babble a dialect of France." The writer who, as Garrick expressed it with more patriotism than elegance, "... arm'd like a hero of yore,... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...into the language he never forces foreign idioms. He protests, both by words and by example, against " the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France." He charges Milton with "forming his style by a perverse and pedantic principle. He was desirous to... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 516 pages
...into the language he never forces foreign idioms. He protests, both by words and by example, against " the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France." He charges Milton with " forming his style by a perverse and pedantic principle. líe was desirous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour with all their influence to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. Works, v. 4s. • • FEW faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more... | |
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