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 Short History of Modern English Literature - 174 ページEdmund Gosse 著 - 1897 - 416 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 ページ
...purity, and shortness, when men delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 ページ
...purity, and shortness, when men delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 ページ
...purity, and shortness, when men delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits or scholars. (From... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 ページ
...is needed. The Royal Society, therefore, " have exacted from all their members" (Dryden was one) " a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive...as near the mathematical plainness as they can; and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars," The... | |
| Park Benjamin - 1895 - 634 ページ
...from the time of Adam, introductory to a physical fact observed yesterday. It "exacted from all its members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen and merchants before that of wits or scholars." Thence... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1898 - 858 ページ
...constant resolution to reject all the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural...as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1898 - 952 ページ
...constant resolution to reject all the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural...as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or scholars." And... | |
| 1899 - 452 ページ
...determined the new pattern the scientific ideal is prominent. Sprat explains how the Eoyal Society " have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural...near the mathematical plainness as they can " ; and this in correction of all kinds of vicious aberration and voluble obscurity. The right manner is serried,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 ページ
...Academy. In 1661 Cowley had issued his Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, the direct result of which was the institution of...they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary Academy could have done more ; and... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 ページ
...Academy. In 1661 Cowley had issued his Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, the direct result of which was the institution of...they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style." No literary Academy could have done more ; and... | |
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