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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... fubject . Permit me there- " fore , to refume the contemplation " of that on which our converfation " turned before . " -- " And here I am forry the nature of the subject , which is the famous erup- tion of Vefuvius , wherein the Elder ...
... fubject . Permit me there- " fore , to refume the contemplation " of that on which our converfation " turned before . " -- " And here I am forry the nature of the subject , which is the famous erup- tion of Vefuvius , wherein the Elder ...
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... it be proper to the fubject , fuited to the capacity of your read- ers , or indeed whether it be an English word or not . You are the unfitteft perfon of I word LEXIPHANES . 71 what follows is neither fit for you to read ...
... it be proper to the fubject , fuited to the capacity of your read- ers , or indeed whether it be an English word or not . You are the unfitteft perfon of I word LEXIPHANES . 71 what follows is neither fit for you to read ...
Page 91
... both of Swift and Butler in his Idlers , not bearing to fee the thing he is fo fond of , expofed by the one , and his own likeness drawn by the other , awakened awakened by a fubject which commonly makes all Doctors a LEXIPHANES . 91.
... both of Swift and Butler in his Idlers , not bearing to fee the thing he is fo fond of , expofed by the one , and his own likeness drawn by the other , awakened awakened by a fubject which commonly makes all Doctors a LEXIPHANES . 91.
Page 92
... fubject which commonly makes all Doctors a little attentive , he went on repeating fome verfes , for , I fuppofe , he had been engaged in the rehearsal before , which I am fure were every way blank , for I could neither make head nor ...
... fubject which commonly makes all Doctors a little attentive , he went on repeating fome verfes , for , I fuppofe , he had been engaged in the rehearsal before , which I am fure were every way blank , for I could neither make head nor ...
Page 95
... fubject , require plain- nefs and perfpicuity , as fo neceflary and indifpen- fable , what muft we think of an ordinary author , who , writing on a common fubject , and in poetry too , labours in a manner to be dark , affected and ...
... fubject , require plain- nefs and perfpicuity , as fo neceflary and indifpen- fable , what muft we think of an ordinary author , who , writing on a common fubject , and in poetry too , labours in a manner to be dark , affected and ...
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