 So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 303edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1902 - 704 pages
...were then able to be followed. ' I have studiously endeavoured,' are his words, ' to collect examples from the writers before the Restoration, whose works...of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it... | |
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