 There was therefore 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.  Lives - Page 205edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1882 - 866 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...purpose what chance might offer him. " There was, then, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...nice distinction of these different parts arises a great part of the beauty of style. . . . 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. From those sounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from 10 the grossness of domestick use, and free from the harsh, ness of terms appropriated to particular... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1896 - 898 pages
...metre, some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham (2) There was before the time of Dryden no poetical diction; no system of words at once refined from the grossuess of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular use. Words... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors ; our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion...diction, no system of words at once refined from the gross- 20 ness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...rugged metre, some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham. . . . 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. . . . The new versification,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this.delicacy of selection was little known to our authors. Our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors. Our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection was little known to our authors. Our speech lay before them in a heap of confusion,...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,... | |
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