...fixed Sydney's Work for the Boundary, beyond which I make few Excurfions. From the Authours which rofe in the Time of Elizabeth, a Speech might be formed adequate to all the Purpofes of Ufe and Elegance. If the Lar.guage of Theology were extracted from Hooker and the Tranflation...

...ought to be our endeavour to recall it, by making our ancient volumes the groundwork of style. . . . From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance.' Johnson's Works, v. pp. 31, 39. See/w/, May 12, 1778. * If Johnson sometimes indulged his Brownism...

...ought to be our endeavour to recall it, by making our ancient volumes the groundwork of style. . . . From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance.' Johnson's Works, v. pp. 31, 39. See post, May 12, 1778. • If Johnson sometimes indulged his Brouinism...

...confining him to that of common life, is nothing to our present purpose) : ' From the authors,' says he, ' which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might...language ' of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators ' of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the ' phrases of policy, war,...

...of any tiling belonging to the northern part of die United Kingdom. " From die authors," says he, " which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." Now let any one compare the Scotch and English writers in the time of queen Elizabedi, and say which...

...by S. Johnson as the pure and genuine sourees of our language ; and he observes that, from them, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." In no period, however, was a language made " a gallimaufrey, or hodge-podge of all other speeches,"...

...too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's works for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the tirse of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the...

...Style, Sentiment, and Imagery. As to language, it has been very justly remarked by Johnson, that " from the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth...adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance*." This acknowledgment of the Doctor's is confirmed by Dryden: in bis Essay on Dramatic Poesie, speaking...

...of style, expression's every grace, Each elegance of speech, 'tis his to trace ; beth," says he, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use, and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible...

...interesting period, that Johnson * has declared his opinion, that from the authors which rose in her time, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. Nor should we forget, that to her protecting care, extended to this countiy, then sunk in barbarism,...