..."Dictionary of the English Language," 1755, Preface: "From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh, (es folgen noch Spenser, Sidney und Shakespeare) few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English...

...insight. He sees that it was fluid and experimental and had become largely obsolete ; yet that from it a speech might be ' formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance ' ; and that by extracting this from the great authors, ' few ideas would be lost to mankind for want...

...Elisabeth datiert the golden age of our language 2). From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance3). Sie sind the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English...

...to our present purpose;) — "From the authors," says he, •' which rose in the timo of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the phrases of policy, war, and...

...Proposal. He finds, as Swift does, that the Elizabethan age shows English at its apex, for in those days 'a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance' (para. 62). And he is Swiftian also in seeing 'in constancy and stability a general and lasting advantage'...

...medieval barbarisms. We have already seen that "From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." No party-line ancient or modern, Johnson considers language neither fundamentally degenerative nor...

...Johnson in the admirable preface to his English Dictionary, " a speech might be " formed adequate to all purposes of use and elegance. " If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker, " and the bible translation ; the terms of natural know" ledge, from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and...

...authours which rofe in the time of Elizabeth, a fpeech might be formed adequate to all the purpofes of ufe and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the tranflation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrafes of policy, war,...