Der Gedanke einer englischen Sprachakademie in Vergangenheit und GegenwartFrommann, 1928 - 246 sider |
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Side 27 - Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits,...
Side 116 - With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their languages, to retain fugitives, and repulse intruders; but their vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain ; sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal restraints; to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by its strength.
Side 116 - Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated : tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.
Side 13 - For their studies ; first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better ; and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.
Side 51 - Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin, or in Greek ; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Side 116 - ... may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.
Side 66 - Abbreviations and Elisions, by which Consonants of most obdurate Sound are joined together, without one softening Vowel to intervene; and all this only to make One Syllable of Two, directly contrary to the Example of the Greeks and Romans, altogether of the...
Side 39 - I am often put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism; and have no other way to clear my doubts, but by translating my English, into Latin, and thereby trying what sense the words will bear in a more stable language.
Side 72 - In order to reform our language, I conceive, my lord, that a free judicious choice should be made of such persons, as are generally allowed to be best qualified for such a work, without any regard to quality, party, or profession.
Side 20 - ... de nettoyer la langue des ordures qu'elle avait contractées , ou dans la bouche du peuple, ou dans la foule du palais et dans les impuretés de la chicane , ou par les mauvais usages des courtisans ignorants , ou par l'abus de ceux qui la corrompent en l'écrivant, et de ceux qui disent bien dans les chaires ce qu'il faut dire , mais autrement qu'il ne faut , etc.