...in which they might be expressed. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. tt company 210 211 departing from Us original Teutonic character, and deviating towards a Gallic structure and...

...decorations, that I have studiously endeavored to collect examples and authorities from the writers bgfore the Restoration, whose works I regard as the ' wells of English undefiled/ as the pure sources 10 L of genuine*~3lction. Our language, for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes,...

...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavored to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the Restoration, whose works I regard Hs"ile"' wells of English undeh'led,' as the pure sources 10 of genuine diction. Our language, for...

...Flirtation fell under this accusation and was attributed only to women The quotations are selected mostly "from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the Wells of English Undefiled" — and range from Sidney to Pope and Dryden, though Spenser is sometimes quoted. We become acquainted...

...studiously 1 The Plan of an English Dictionary. » Ibid. THE ENGLISH TONGUE 25 endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating toward a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which...

...of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance3). Sie sind the writers before the restoration, whose works I...undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction 4). Maßgebend soll bei der Festlegung sein der einmal eingebürgerte Sprachgebrauch, wie ihn die Dichter...

...from any care to grace my pages with1 modern decorations, that I hate studiously endeavored to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...Restoration, whose works I regard as the ' wells of English undeflled,' as the pure sources 10 of genuine diction. Our language, for almost a century, has, by...

...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavored to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it...

...from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which...

...the time of Queen Elizabeth, and the period preceding the Restoration, whose works he justly regarded as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. But his partiality for the Anglo- Latin phraseology of Sir Thomas Browne, and other favourite names,...