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... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
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... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
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... words is , I think , frequently Italian ; perhaps sometimes combined with other tongues . Of him , at last , may be said what Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect ...
... words is , I think , frequently Italian ; perhaps sometimes combined with other tongues . Of him , at last , may be said what Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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