It is clear that Johnson himself did not think in the dialect in which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque ; when he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese.... Scribner's Magazine - Página 659editado por - 1907Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...; and it is amusing to compare the two versions.' Macaulay thereupon quotes these two passages. See ante, under Aug. 29, 1783. 1 ' We had a lemon and... | |
| 1831 - 652 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...to compare the two versions. ' When we were taken up stairs,' says he in one of his letters, « a dirty fellow bounced out of the ' bed on which one... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1833 - 412 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese." The natural consequence of this was, it could not last. Its elaborate pomposity, its sounding terminations,... | |
| 1834 - 498 páginas
...he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque ; when he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...to compare the two versions. " When we were taken up stairs," says he, in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...Hebrides to Mrs. Thrale, are the original of that wprk of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation ; and it is amusing to compare" the two... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...to compare the two versions. " When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. from any imputation of personal participation in the spoil. An age, so miserably up stairs," says he in one of his letters, « a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences...to compare the two versions. " When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us... | |
| 1850 - 656 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic and picturesque. When he wrote for publication he did his sentences...to compare the two versions. ' When we were taken up stairs,' says he in one of his letters, * a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...which he wrote. The expressions which came first to his tongue were simple, energetic, and picturesque. * up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which oie of... | |
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