 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...Alison, "All his books are written In a learned language; in a language which nobody bears from liia mother or his nurse; in a language in which nobody...love ; in a language in which nobody ever thinks. Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1872 - 360 pages
...bargains, or makes love; in a language in which nobody ever thinks. It is clear that Johnson hi>nself did not think in the dialect in which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue wore simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pages
...Boswell." — Sir Archibald Aliton. "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 quarrel.-«, or drives bargains, or makes love ; in a language in whit:h nobody ever think*. Mannerism... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1874 - 140 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...himself did not think in the dialect in which he wrote." Li'to-tes. Is precisely the reverse of hyperbole. It is a form of thought by which, in seeming to lessen,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language, in a Ian aee which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse,— in a...quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love,— in a laneuage in which nobody ever thinks. It is clear that Johnson himself did not think in the dialect... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pages
...written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in » language in -which nobody ever quarrels, or drives...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 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... | |
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