 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...great geniuses and those of the very highes't o^der that are able to rise to its height. — Bruyere. Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language. — Landor. The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1901 - 470 pages
...>^V'r*CW^^ ^ ^^ ~ * N. • x - V~' i>**-I<iS' i%^$§^ *^^^ ia * ^«a^^t ^» : .•*» f ^*^7^i>^^ -> .S^?^ us for a more intimate union with them, in which we...; it is the life and spirit of language : and none such ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1898 - 364 pages
...to Spencer's " Philosophy of Style." Note A.) Walter Savage Landor says of idiomatic expressions. " Every good writer has much idiom, it is the life and spirit of the language ; and none ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...a man. — Pascal. rouge, and love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. — liare. e dignified and useful, and death lese terrible.— »Sidney Smith. The s — Landor. I hate a style that is wholly fiat and regular, that slides along like an eel, and never... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...found a man.— Pascal. rouge, and love simple ones as yon would native roses on your cheek. — Hare. re fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in — Landor. I hate a style that is wholly flat and regular, that elides along like an eel, and never... | |
 | English language - 1919 - 496 pages
...point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree with Lander's saying that ' every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language', yet laws when they have been repealed, and bygone proscriptions, even %vhen they have been shown to... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - Books and reading - 1921 - 332 pages
...even all his grace and ease, forsake him when he ventures into poetry." He defends the use of idiom (" Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ") and attacks the use of quotation : " Before I let fall a quotation I must be taken by surprise. I seldom... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English language - 1925 - 320 pages
...point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree with Landor's saying that " every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language," yet laws when they have been repealed, and bygone proscriptions, even when they have been shown to... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English language - 1925 - 324 pages
...point of view is now an obsolete one, and we should all probably agree with Lander's saying that " every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language," yet laws when they have been repealed, and bygone proscriptions-, even when they have been shown to... | |
 | John Earle Uhler - English language - 1926 - 200 pages
...careful to retain as much idiom as I could, often at the peril of being called ordinary and vulgar . . . Every good writer has much idiom ; it is the life and spirit of language ; and none such ever entertained a fear or apprehension that strength and sublimity were to be lowered and weakened... | |
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What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned to the populace, and every day we miss a little of our own, and collect a little from strangers : this prepares us for a more intimate union with them, in which... 
