| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Počet stránok 716
...it, as arthritical analogies, for parts that serve some animals in the place of joints. His style is, rableness and Necessity of a supernatural Revelation." This was the last book that pliilosophical diction ; and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - Počet stránok 718
...it, as arthritical analogía, for parts that serve some animals in the place of joints. His style is, De bad uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for which »njr language... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - Počet stránok 796
...subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous...words, brought together from distant regions, with tonns originally appropriate to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.'' ' THOUGHTS... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - Počet stránok 800
...subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. His «yle is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous...Together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriate to ono art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.''' THOUGHTS ON DEATH AND... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - Počet stránok 786
...subject on which he might try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous...together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriate to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another." ' THOUGHTS ON DEATH AND... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Počet stránok 788
...on which he rnigb' try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. Hi« style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous...together from distant regions, with terms originally appropiiate to one •rt, and drawn by violence into the service of another." ' THOUGHTS ON DEATH AND... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1863 - Počet stránok 226
...indeed, a tiflue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from diftant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the fervice of another. He muft, however, be confefled to have augmented our philofophical diction ; and... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Počet stránok 784
...subject on which he migb* try his plastic skill, by moulding it according to his own fancy. Hii rtyle is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heterogeneous...together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriate to one Tt, and drawn by violence into the service of another." * THOUGHTS ON DEATH AND... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - Počet stránok 220
...obscure, it strikes but does not please, it commands but does not allure. . . . It is a tissue M358743 of many languages, a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions." Yet in spite of this qualified censure, there are passages in Browne's works not inferior to any in... | |
| 1883 - Počet stránok 492
...pedantic, it is deep but obscure, it strikes but does not please, it commands but does not allure ; it is a tissue of many languages, a mixture of heterogeneous words brought together from distant regions." Hallam said that he "wanted nothing but the controlling supremacy of good sense." In Shaw's " Handbook... | |
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