 | Yorkshire Dialect Society - 1914 - 98 pages
...and make it conform to certain abstract rules and principles. " I have laboured," Dr. Johnson said, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations."* Intellect ualism of this kind, the desire to force '; grammatical purity," and logical consistency... | |
 | William Hawley Davis - 1916 - 232 pages
...contributions to the development of the essay deserves further consideration. "I have labored," wrote Johnson, "to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction and something to the harmony of... | |
 | Society for Pure English - 1919 - 716 pages
...language, often stigmatizing them as ' low' and ' ungrammatical ' in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical...colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'.2 Although this point of view is now an obsolete one, and we .should all probably agree... | |
 | 588 pages
...on a copy of the fifth edition' of London. And Johnson had not the desire, even had he possessed&the ability, to disguise his purpose. Addison, too, had...Bailey, in his Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1/21), had aimed at a record of all English words, irrespective of their vogue or repute. Johnson... | |
 | 1921 - 930 pages
...puerility, the levity of contempt, and the derision of ridicule.' This is Lexiphanes. 'I have labored to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.' That is the Rambler. The trick, though characteristic, is not in fact distressingly frequent. Yet the... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
...exercise an important influence on diction. The nature of this influence he describes thus: "I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...Frederick the Great, i. 11. 4 Carlyle's essay on Johnson. f II JOHNSON'S STYLE AND MANNERISMS " I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 324 pages
...language, often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 Although this point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree with Lander's... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 320 pages
...language, often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 * Although this point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree with Landor's... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 pages
...verschwindet nicht ganz aus dem Gesichtskreis. Er klingt wieder an in den Schlußworten des Rambler: l have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations . . . whoever knows the English tongue in its present extent. will be able to express bis thoughts... | |
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I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... 
