 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...most certain mistress of language, as the , public stamp makes the current money. But we must 10 | not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; j since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...are by use made tender and jgentle. It is an honesl enui thai ib CUmimlled, following great chiefs. Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...public stamp makes the current money. But we must 10 not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 228 pages
...are by use made tender and gentle. It is an honest error that is committed, following great chiefs. Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...public stamp makes the current money. But we must 10 not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1893 - 324 pages
...valor. Such writers can follow no better counsels than those given by Ben Jonson and by Pope : — " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...in it as to need an interpreter. Words borrowed of antiguity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 454 pages
...part of valor. Such writers can follow no better counsel than that given by Ben Jonson and Pope: — " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter. 1 " The curt form of gent, as a less ceremonious substitute for the full expression of 'gentleman,'... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pages
...part of valor. Such writers can iollow no better counsel than that given by Ben Jonson and Pope: — " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the ex treme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 464 pages
...of valor. Such writers can follow no better counsel than that given by Ben Jonson and Pope : — " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But \ve must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and... | |
 | Charles Crawford - 1907 - 172 pages
...worthy of love, but of praise. Though ambition itself be a vice, it is often the cause of great virtue. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every...nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages. The eldest of the present, and newness of the past language, is the best. For order helps much to perspicuity.... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1908 - 334 pages
...words are little more than a literal translation from the Latin author last named. "Custom," said he, "is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money." But, like Quintilian, he was careful to define what he meant by this supreme authority. "When I name custom,"... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1909 - 380 pages
...often rivals Moliere in his common sense, put the matter pithily as was his wont, when he asserted that "custom is the most certain mistress of language,...day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and uttermost ages, since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to... | |
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity,... 
