Lexiphanes: A Dialogue : Imitated from Lucian, and Suited to the Present Times : Being an Attempt to Restore the English Tongue to Its Antient Purity : and to Correct as Well as Expose the Affected Style, Hard Words, and Absurd Phraseology of Many Late Writers, and Particularly of Our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler |
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... faid , for the firft time , what other modern writings came in my way ; and I generally found them more or lefs Lexiphanick in proportion to the fhare of fame and reputation their feveral authors enjoyed . I now recollected , that your ...
... faid , for the firft time , what other modern writings came in my way ; and I generally found them more or lefs Lexiphanick in proportion to the fhare of fame and reputation their feveral authors enjoyed . I now recollected , that your ...
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... faid of it in the Preface . But I think it not amifs to inform the Reader , that this Dia- logue , together with the Sale of Authors , and Jome other imitations of Lucian , was compofed about three years ago in one of our American ...
... faid of it in the Preface . But I think it not amifs to inform the Reader , that this Dia- logue , together with the Sale of Authors , and Jome other imitations of Lucian , was compofed about three years ago in one of our American ...
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... faid to hold in high contempt , and , in my opinion , very justly too , for most of them , I have been told , are his great ad- mirers , and fo much his very humble fervants , that they think it even an honour to be abused by him . For ...
... faid to hold in high contempt , and , in my opinion , very justly too , for most of them , I have been told , are his great ad- mirers , and fo much his very humble fervants , that they think it even an honour to be abused by him . For ...
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... faid , foreign gentlemen are at present much addicted to the study of our language . A thing I am heartily forry fhould take place , till the taste of the publick , at least with refpect to the authors we admire , be a little amended ...
... faid , foreign gentlemen are at present much addicted to the study of our language . A thing I am heartily forry fhould take place , till the taste of the publick , at least with refpect to the authors we admire , be a little amended ...
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... will not altogether do the bufinefs . For I humbly apprehend no Englifhman can be faid , in the pro- per and obvious fenfe , to be a confumer of oats . No , turned to Gray's - Inn , in the periodical iti- 40 LEXIPHANES .
... will not altogether do the bufinefs . For I humbly apprehend no Englifhman can be faid , in the pro- per and obvious fenfe , to be a confumer of oats . No , turned to Gray's - Inn , in the periodical iti- 40 LEXIPHANES .
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Page 104 - 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 of its cadence.
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Page 56 - It is not to be conceived, what length a habit of activity in affairs will carry fome men. Let a ftranger, or let any perfon to whom the fight is not familiar, attend the chancellor of Great Britain through the labours but of one day, during a feflion of parliament : how great will be his aftonifhment ! what multiplicity of law-bufinefs, what deep thinking, and what elaborate application to matters of government ! The train of perceptions muft in...
Page 73 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that th' Omnipotent might send him forth In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice ; to exalt His...