 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pàgines
...durable. . . The uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. . . If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete . . . this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pàgines
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be. what I believe there is. in every nation,...unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pàgines
...school has added two or three audiences: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit. There is, in every nation, a style which never becomes...unaltered. This style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pàgines
...washing the dissoluble fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pàgines
...represents the eternal spirit of English. "If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life . . . There is a conversation above... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 pàgines
...merriment" (667), Johnson constructs a broad lexical field and positions Shakespeare as the mediating term: If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the... | |
 | Janet Sorensen - 2000 - 350 pàgines
...Dictionary, however, Johnson's famous description of this ideal language seems purely Utopian. He writes If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pàgines
...be more than a step on the way to something else. For the first time the language achieved "a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...respective language as to remain settled and unaltered." It was therefore for the first time worthy of an attention not merely antiquarian. This is one of the... | |
 | Kathryn Temple - 2003 - 268 pàgines
...conversation, Shakespeare had located and preserved the national treasure of language that had eluded Johnson: "If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete . . . this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pàgines
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.... | |
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If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered... 
