 | David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - 262 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be... | |
 | Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 372 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. (S. Johnson 1963, 18-19) Johnson is uncompromising in his graphocentricity. What sanctifies meaning... | |
 | Kathryn Temple - 2003 - 268 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words in which they might be expressed"... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 pages
...dialect of poetry and fiction from Sidney and Spenser: and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.2* For Johnson, the late Elizabethan age was, therefore, a golden age in the use of the language,... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2008 - 207 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be... | |
 | 1837 - 546 pages
...the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and...of English words in which they might be expressed." But Charles Fox, at a later period, took a still narrower view of the needed extent of a vocabulary,... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 68 pages
...terms of natural know" ledge, from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and " navigation, from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and " fiction, from Spenser,...and Sidney ; and the diction of " common life, from Shakespeare ; few ideas would be " lost to mankind for want of English words, in which " they might... | |
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Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and... 
