 There is stuff enough in our language, but there is a defect in cutting out: for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from; and forms of speaking, like herbs, improve and grow...  Essays [tr. by Cotton - Page 155by Michel de Montaigne - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1743 - 442 pages
...improve and grow ftronger by being tranfplanted. I find it fufficiently abounding, but not fufficiently pliable and vigorous. It quails under a powerful Conception. If you would maintain the Dignity of your Stile, you will oft perceive it to flag and languifh under you, and there Latin fteps in to it's Relief,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...defect in fashioning it ; for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ; and...will oft perceive it to flag and languish under you." t This opinion of the merits and defects of the French language, as it existed in the days of Montaigne,... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from : and the forme of speaking, like herbs, improve and grow stronger...dignity of your style, you will oft perceive it to i flag and languish under you, and there Latin I opinion of the French language. steps in to its relief,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1855 - 822 pages
...defect in fashioning it ; for there is nothing that might not he made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ; and...would maintain the dignity of your style, you will oil perceive it to flag and languish under you."f This opinion of the merits and defects of the French... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1857 - 362 pages
...defect in fashioning it ; for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ; and...oft perceive it to flag and languish under you."* This opinion of the merits and defects of the French language, as it existed in the days of Montaigne,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English language - 1859 - 380 pages
...considered opinion of the scope and power of the French, as it flourished in the sixteenth century. " I find it sufficiently abounding, but not sufficiently...will oft perceive it to flag and languish under you." Not so the English : the best German philologists, among whom may be mentioned Jacob Grimm, have been... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English language - 1866 - 396 pages
...as it flourished in the sixteenth century. " I find it sufficiently abounding, but not sufficientry pliable and vigorous; it quails under a powerful conception;...will oft perceive it to flag and languish under you." Not so the English: the best German philologists, among whom may be mentioned Jacob Grimm, have been... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 960 pages
...defect in fashioning it ; for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ; and...vigorous ; it quails under a powerful conception ; if vou would maintain the dignity of your stvle, you will oft perceive it to flag and languish under you."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1871 - 954 pages
...defect in fashioning it ; for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ;. and the forms of «peaking, like herbs, improve and grow stronger by being transplanted. 1 find it sufficiently abounding,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...defect in fashiomng it ; for there is nothing that might not be made out of our terms of hunting and war, which is a fruitful soil to borrow from ; and...you will oft perceive it to flag and languish under you."t * See Kaynouard. Choix des Poesies Originalcs des Troubadours. Tome I., p. xxxvj. The custom... | |
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