Leonard Welsted: Gentleman Poet of the Augustan AgeUniversity of Pennsylvania., 1950 - 233 sider |
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... language — an instrument of expression that he considered vastly more subtle than the French - would ever be improved beyond the perfect state which it had attained in his own time . Except for the last , such opinions are of course not ...
... language — an instrument of expression that he considered vastly more subtle than the French - would ever be improved beyond the perfect state which it had attained in his own time . Except for the last , such opinions are of course not ...
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... Language , " as " this charming Art , " as a pretty vessel to be filled with the notions of good sense and good taste that a man gathers in polite conversation.90 " This charming Art " -how else would one define the intention behind ...
... Language , " as " this charming Art , " as a pretty vessel to be filled with the notions of good sense and good taste that a man gathers in polite conversation.90 " This charming Art " -how else would one define the intention behind ...
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... language has its period of perfection followed by one of decline . " It is with Languages , " he declared , " as it is with Animals , Vegetables , and all other Things ; they have their Rise , their Progress , their Maturity , and their ...
... language has its period of perfection followed by one of decline . " It is with Languages , " he declared , " as it is with Animals , Vegetables , and all other Things ; they have their Rise , their Progress , their Maturity , and their ...
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