| Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 Seiten
...represents the eternal spirit of English. "If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life . . . There is a conversation above... | |
| Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 Seiten
...positions Shakespeare as the mediating term: If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be... | |
| Janet Sorensen - 2000 - 350 Seiten
...language seems purely Utopian. He writes If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...language as to remain settled and unaltered; this stile is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be... | |
| John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...be more than a step on the way to something else. For the first time the language achieved "a stile which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology...respective language as to remain settled and unaltered." It was therefore for the first time worthy of an attention not merely antiquarian. This is one of the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 Seiten
...washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation,...intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and... | |
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