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 - Страница 73по Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 94 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 страници
...but nothing could be got.' Piozzi Letters, i. 136. Macaulay (Essays, ed. 1843, i. 404) says : — ' It is clear that Johnson himself did not think in...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... | |
| 1831 - 652 страници
...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...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... | |
| 1834 - 498 страници
...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... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 страници
...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...Johnson himself did not think in the dialect in which he wrot ••. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque.... | |
| 1850 - 676 страници
...says of the style of Johnson. It is " a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, — a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, — a language in which nobody ever thinks." There is an affectation of quaintness in the style of... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 страници
...says of the style of Johnson. It is " a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, — a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, — a language in which nobody ever thinks." There is an affectation of quaintness in the style of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 страници
...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. It is clear, that Johnson himself did not think in... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 страници
...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...that Johnson himself did not think in the dialect iu which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 страници
...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... | |
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