 When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Страница 261по Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Jean Aitchison - 1997 - 160 страници
...(figure I .3 ). In the preface to his dictionary, he said: When we see men grow old and die . . ., we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life...equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language . . . With this hope, however, academies... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 страници
...reason nor experience can justify' (para. 84). To determine a language once and for all is a vain wish: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | Ian Baucom - 1999 - 260 страници
...begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify. . . . With equal justice may the lexicographer be derided,...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that it is in his power to embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay. . . . With... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 страници
...and perfectible - in one word, human. Otto jespersen, 1909, A Modem English Grammar, Preface, I 7:44 When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 страници
...time his dictionary was completed eight years later, Johnson had recognized the futility of that aim: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and... | |
 | Geoff Barnbrook - 2002 - 308 страници
...Language (Johnson, 1773) shows that, in practice, he did not find the exercise quite so straightforward: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | David Crystal - 2003 - 230 страници
...nnot be kept static, and that standards always ange. Dr Johnson was one who derided the notion: Ъeп we see men grow old and die at a certain time one er another, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong e to a thousand years; and with equal justice... | |
 | Robert Hartwell Fiske - 2004 - 308 страници
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectations which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | A.P.R. Howatt, H.G. Widdowson - 2004 - 444 страници
...end of his labours the naivety of such ambitions had been replaced by a more realistic assessment: 'When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay'.19 Johnson's... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - 2006 - 254 страници
...goodness language - an expectation which, as he put it, 'neither reason nor experience can justify'. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
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