 | Lee Morrissey - 2008 - 264 pages
...mid-seventeenth century: "our language, for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character, and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recall it" according to Johnson... | |
 | David Graddol, Dick Leith, Joan Swann - 1996 - 406 pages
...reftoration, whofe works I regard as the -we/is of Englijh undefiled, as the pure fources of genuine diction. Our language, for almoft a century, has, by the concurrence...caufes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick ftructure and phrafeology, from which it ought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 704 pages
...sources of genuine diction. Our language for almost a century has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recall it by making our ancient... | |
| |
Our language, for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character, and deviating... 
