It makes us blush to add, that even grammar .is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer,... Style and rhetoric and other papers - Page 186by Thomas De Quincey - 1862Full view - About this book
| England - 1840 - 876 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semibarbarous...and in proportion to that concern, there will always bo a suitable (and as letters extend, a growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 370 pages
...belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer, through a circuit of pro* digious reading, who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of Eiiglish grammar. Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations, we shall conclude with insisting... | |
| John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar. "t The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...will always be a suitable (and as letters extend, 9, growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing to be equal, the determining principle... | |
| John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1876 - 530 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar." * The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking... | |
| Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 1879 - 262 pages
...grammar is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that, with two or three exceptions (one being Shakspere, whom some affect to consider as belonging...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar." Says Professor Marsh : It has been claimed, and ptrhaps upon reasonable grounds, that three fourths... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 286 pages
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has... | |
| John Bascom - English language - 1882 - 322 pages
...mercilessly lashed in the Edinburgh Keview. — [Stopford Brook.] 18. With two or three exceptions we have never seen the writer through a circuit of...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. — [De Quincey.] 19. Senex had filled the curacies before he was presented at court, where (in 1832)... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 286 pages
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 476 pages
...Shakspere, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age), we have never seen 1 the writer, through a circuit of prodigious reading,...Other things being equal, or appearing to be equal, v the determining principle for the public choice will lie in i the style. Of a German book, otherwise... | |
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