 All his books are written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, in a language in which nobody ever thinks.  Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 57by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...but nothing could be got.' Piozzi Letters, i. 136. Macaulay (Essays, ed. 1843, i. 404) says : — ' It is clear that Johnson himself did not think in...The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language, — in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, — in...The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language ; in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse ; in a language...The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque ; when he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language — in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse — in a...Johnson himself did not think in the dialect in which he wrot ••. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque.... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...says of the style of Johnson. It is " a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, — a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, — a language in which nobody ever thinks." There is an affectation of quaintness in the style of... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...says of the style of Johnson. It is " a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, — a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, — a language in which nobody ever thinks." There is an affectation of quaintness in the style of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...written in a learned language—in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse—in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love—in a language in which nobody ever thinks. It is clear, that Johnson himself did not think in... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language ; in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse ; in a language...that Johnson himself did not think in the dialect iu which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language — in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse — in a...The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English... | |
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