 ... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 89by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote, and among his other excellencies fencies deferves... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote, and among his other excellencies lencies deferves... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet fee,ms to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...converfation above groflhefs, and below refinerefinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellences deferves to be fludied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations,...learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or irtakirig better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...convcrfation above groffnefs and below refinement, where propriety relides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...converfation above groflhefs, and below refinement, where propriety reficies, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...converfation above grofmefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
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