 | Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 pages
...the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed Inadequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Haleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life... | |
 | 1923 - 468 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...from Raleigh, the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spencer and Sidney, and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 pages
...over about a year or two ago. Samuel Johnson Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 IF the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and 20 navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction... | |
 | 1926 - 604 pages
...purposes of use and elegante. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the tnnsladon of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from...phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh, (es folgen noch Spencer, Sidney und Shakespeare) few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...models of style; from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and but words must be sought where they are o they still, as if with opium I have sometimes, though rarely, yielded and the diction of common life from Shake- to the temptation... | |
 | Nadja Kempner - 1928 - 146 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh, (es folgen noch Spenser, Sidney und Shakespeare) few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance ' ; and that by extracting this from the great authors, ' few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words, in which they might be expressed." Again, though his purpose is to fix, so far as may be, a true and lasting standard, Johnson has a keen... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...of English words in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
 | 1851 - 644 pages
...purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from...and navigation from Raleigh, the dialect of poetry from Spenser and Sydney, and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from... 
