There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Lives - Page 205edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
| John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...our authors; our fpeech lay before them in a heap of confufion ; and every man took for every purpofe what chance might offer him. There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no fyftem of words at once refined from the groffnefs of domeftick ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...grossness of domestick use, and free from the harshness of terras appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to* our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...took for every purpose what chance might offer him. . -t. There was therefore hpfargJJTg J.UHfi. of .Drydpjri , no system of words at once refinecTfrom... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...rectitude was in then place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar,... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...there was no poetical diction, no system of •words at once refined from the grogsness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated...familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet ; those happy combinations of words which distinguish poetry from prose, had been rarely attempted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...took for every purpose what chance might offer him. But though they did much, who can deny that they left much to do ? Their works were not many, nor were... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Waida-tQC^famiUar, or togjgmote^jiefeat the purposgjof a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small... | |
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