...sentences by semicolons, rather than by full stops, as in the latter part of the following random example: There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no...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...

...He continues, expressing a view quite contrary to that of Wordsworth and Rudyard Kipling : There was 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. Words too familiar,...

...social usage to the verse in which they wrote and the language they used. " There was," said Dr Johnson, "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. Words too familiar...