 So that we may conclude wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language is. It imitates the public riot. The excess of feasts and apparel are the notes of a sick state ; and the wantonness of language, of a sick mind.  St. Solifer with Other Worthies and Unworthies - Side 165av James Vila Blake - 1891 - 179 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 sider
...If a man be fiery, his motion is so ; if angry, it is troubled and violent. So that we may conclude wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language...; and the wantonness of language, of a sick mind. De rebus mundanis. — If we would consider what our affairs are indeed, not what they are called,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 sider
...of taste the proof and the consequence of a corruption of manners : ' We may conclude,' he says, ' wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language is: it imitates the public wish.' To this also history bears witness : everywhere, as nations have declined, literature, arts,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 sider
...of taste the proof and the consequence of a corruption of manners : ' We may conclude,' he says, ' wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language is : it imitates the public wish.' To this also history bears witness ! everywhere, as nations have declined, literature, arts,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 sider
...was noticed by the same great author. " Wheresoeverf manners and fashions are corrupted," says he, "language is. It imitates the public riot. The excess...; and the wantonness of language of a sick mind." This was the observation of a man well versed in the history of the ancients and in their literature.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 476 sider
...was noticed by the same great author. " Wheresoeverf manners and fashions are corrupted," says he, "language is. It imitates the public riot. The excess...; and the wantonness of language of a sick mind." This was the observation of a man- well versed in the history of the ancients and in their literature.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1831 - 488 sider
...and ' fashions are corrupted,' says he, ' language is. ' It imitates the public riot. The excesses of ' feasts and apparel are the notes of a sick state...' and the wantonness of language of a sick mind.' This was the observation of a man well versed in the history of the ancients and in their litera* Giflbrd's... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 sider
...manners and fashions are corrupted,' says he, ' language is. It imitates the public riot. The excesses of feasts and apparel are the notes of a sick state...; and the wantonness of language of a sick mind.' This was the observation of a man well versed in the history of the ancients and in their • • literature.... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 sider
...wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, ^mguage is.^N It imitates the public riot. The excessoFTeats and apparel are the notes of a sick state ; and the wantonness of language, of a sick mind. ' Horat. de Art. Poetica. LXXXII. De rebus mundanis. — If we would consider what our affairs are... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 sider
...If a man be fiery, his motion is so; if angry, it is troubled and violent. So that we may conclude wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language is. It imitates the public riot. The excess of feats and apparel are the notes of a sick state ; and the wantonness of language, of a sick mind. LXXXII.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 694 sider
...in general, ' There cannot be one colour of the mind, another of the wit ... So that we may conclude wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted, language is. It imitates the public riot V And in truth, we know only too well that the public for which Dryden and his contemporaries, and... | |
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