Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 137
... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and bar- barous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and bar- barous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
Page 164
... language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they ...
... language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they ...
Page 307
... languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of expres- sion should ... language been English : rugged magnificence is not to be softened : hyperbolical ostentation is not to be repressed ...
... languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of expres- sion should ... language been English : rugged magnificence is not to be softened : hyperbolical ostentation is not to be repressed ...
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