 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 304 pages
...their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom. What your father and your grandfather used as an elegance in conversation, is now abandoned...; 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... | |
 | Freeman Tilden - Social Science - 1967 - 196 pages
...vulgar. Nations in a state of decay lose their idiom, which loss is always precursory to that of freedom 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... | |
 | Authorship - 1906 - 620 pages
...contributions from his pen, he will probably remain a "Sky Pilot" for some time to come. INDIVIDUALITY 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... 
