| 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
...is usually allowed in our American system of education. " It makes us blush," writes De Quincey, " that even grammar is so little of a perfect attainment...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 - 472 pages
...rules for evading the most frequently recurring forms of awkwardness, of obscurity, of misproportion, and of double meaning, would do more to assist a writer...Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations^ we v shall conclude with insisting on the growing necessity of style as a practical interest of daily... | |
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