 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony...  Tracts on Political and Other Subjects - Strana 422autor/autoři: Joseph Towers - 1796Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Hawley Davis - 1916 - 232 str.
...contributions to the development of the essay deserves further consideration. "I have labored," wrote Johnson, "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | 1919 - 496 str.
...language, often stigmatizing them as 'low' and ' ungrammaticar in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'.2 Although this point of view is now an... | |
 | 588 str.
...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in the midst of a similar... | |
 | 1921 - 930 str.
...puerility, the levity of contempt, and the derision of ridicule.' This is Lexiphanes. 'I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.' That is the Rambler. The trick, though... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 str.
...naturally would exercise an important influence on diction. The nature of this influence he describes thus: "I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 str.
...of Frederick the Great, i. 11. 4 Carlyle's essay on Johnson. f II JOHNSON'S STYLE AND MANNERISMS " I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 320 str.
...often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 * Although this point of view is now... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 324 str.
...often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 Although this point of view is now an... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 str.
...verschwindet nicht ganz aus dem Gesichtskreis. Er klingt wieder an in den Schlußworten des Rambler: l have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations . . . whoever knows the English tongue in... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 str.
...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ''to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in the midst of a similar... | |
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