 He would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power of every phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each, — restoring to full significance...  Memoir and Remains - Seite 4von John Miller Gray - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Pater - 1885 - 464 Seiten
...neglect the native speech, that true " open field " for charm and sway over men : — he would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power of every phrase and word, as though it were H precious metal, going back to the original and native sense of each, disentangling its later associations,... | |
 | 1885 - 528 Seiten
...style, the subdued and subtle beauty of which grows upon» the most critical reader with each reperusal: A serious study, weighing the precise power of every phrase and word, as though it were i885.] THE LITERARY WORLD. precious metal, going back to the original and native sense of each, disentangling... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1896 - 372 Seiten
...brutalise or neglect the native speech, that true " open field " for charm and sway over men. He would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power...phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each, — restoring... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 Seiten
...or neglect the native speech, that true " open field " for charm 15 and sway over men. He would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power...phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each,—restor-20... | |
 | Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - 1903 - 330 Seiten
...brutalise or neglect the native speech, that true ' open field ' for charm and sway over men. He would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power...phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each — restoring... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 Seiten
...rights of the proletariat of speech." But, a Wordsworth of decidedly Paterian sensibility, he would make of it a serious study, weighing the precise power of every phrase and word, as though it were a precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense... | |
 | Walter Pater - 2005 - 393 Seiten
..."open field" for charm and sway over men. He would make of it a serious study, weighing the preeise power of every phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each,—restoring... | |
 | 1910 - 548 Seiten
...exemplify his artistic restraint in the use of superflous words: " He would make of it [the native speech] a serious study, weighing the precise power of every...phrase and word, as though it were precious metal, disentangling the later associations and going back to the original and native sense of each — restoring... | |
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