 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pages
...Hebrew t V. No. idioms run into the English tongue with a particular grace and beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements,...are derived to it out of the poetical passages in b '^- writ. They give a force and energy to our expressions, warm and animate our .anguage, and convey... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 708 pages
...Hebrew 'V. No. 310 idioms run into the English tongue with a particular grace auJ beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements,...are derived to it out of the poetical passages in b •'•»• writ. They give a force and energy to our expressions, warm and animate our '.anguage,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 282 pages
...the infusion of good principles. Our language has received Innumerable elegancies and improvement* from that infusion of Hebraisms which are derived to it out of the poetical passages in Holy Writ. Addijton, In Italy the question of rights had become so complicated that nothing but the iti^wnon of... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 pages
...luckily that the Hebrew idioms run into the English tongue with a peculiar grace and beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements...which are derived to it out of the poetical passages of Holy Writ. They give a force and energy to our expressions, warm and animate our language, and convey... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 pages
...Divine Songs and Anthems, Improvements Improvements, from that Infusion of Hebraism, which No, 405, are derived to it out of the Poetical Passages in Holy Writ, Saturday, They give a Force and Energy to our Expressions, warm j^f and animate our Language, and convey... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 320 pages
...innumerable Elegancies and Improvements Improvements, from that Infusion of Hebraism, which No, 405. are derived to it out of the Poetical Passages in Holy Writ, Saturday, They give a Force and Energy to our Expressions, warm j^' ' and animate our Language, and... | |
 | Nahum Sokolow - 1919 - 428 pages
...in the 405th Number of the Spectator, 'has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from the infusion of Hebraisms which are derived to it out of the poetical passages of Holy Writ ; — they give a force and energy to our expression, warm and animate our language, and... | |
 | Mark Daniel Carroll R., David J. A. Clines, Philip R. Davies - 1995 - 481 pages
...a century before Trench, Joseph Addison had written in the Spectator of 14 June 1712, 'Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements,...infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of... Holy Writ... Hebrew idioms run into the English tongue with a particular grace and beauty.' In 1528,... | |
 | David Norton - 2000 - 526 pages
...tongue' in The Spectator 405 anticipates Husbands. There Addison gave his opinion that 'our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements...derived to it out of the poetical passages in Holy Writ'.21 Husbands gives examples of these admirable Hebraisms such as dawn being expressed as 'the... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - 556 pages
...standard. Addison, for instance, praised the use of diction and metaphors in religious verse that "gives a Force and Energy to our Expressions, warm and animate...and convey our Thoughts in more ardent and intense Phrases."35 Force, warm, ardent, intense — these were words that came to be contested, associated... | |
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Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements, from that infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the poetical passages in, holy writ. 
