 | Matthew (st) - 1843 - 164 pages
...words of our own, when our authorized version supplies us with so many and proper expressions, * " If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...than in the words of Dr. Johnson, who observes: "From the authors who rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...and navigation, from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...in the time of Queen Elizabeth, that a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of life. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker,...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare — few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...in the time of Queen Elizabeth, that a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of life. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker,...; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Kaleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...auihois which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes nf use and elegance. If the language of theology were...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words in which they might... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...English Petrarch, and Dr. Johnson seems to think that he is the English model of poetic expression : " If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sydn«y ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 488 pages
...thought. Dr. Johnson has very warrantably said : " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare ; few ideas would be lost... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 396 pages
...derived from Saxon roots ! " From the authors," says Dr. Johnson, " which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the phrases of policy, war, and... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...probably owing to the greater fixedness of our aristocratic national character. " If," says Dr. Johnson, " the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases oi policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...congenial to them, has admirably remarked, that " From the authors which arose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sydney; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, — few ideas would be lost to mankind, for... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge... 
