 The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right. But there is a conversation above...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Sida 90efter Samuel Johnson - 1806Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote, and among his other excellencies fencies deferves... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote, and among his other excellencies lencies deferves... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 sidor
...Converfation above Groifnefs, and below Refinement, where Propriety Tefides, and where this Poet feems to haye gathered his Comick Dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the Ears of the prefent Age than any other Authour equally remote, and among his other Ejccellencies, deferves to be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet fee,ms to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs, and below refinerefinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellences deferves to be fludied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 sidor
...life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hopes of finding or irtakirig better ; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs and below refinement, where propriety refides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 sidor
...convcrfation above groffnefs and below refinement, where propriety relides, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 sidor
...converfation above groflhefs, and below refinement, where propriety reficies, and where this poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue. He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote, and among his other excellencies deferves to be ;... | |
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