 | Gisèle Venet - 1997 - 460 pages
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 | Andrew Hadfield - 2001 - 302 pages
...claim that archaisms 'lend a kind of majesty to style', Jonson stresses the importance of 'custom': Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it, as to need an interpreter.10 It could be objected that the glossary to The Shepheardes Calender illustrates the need... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...most certain mistress of language, as the puhlic stamp makes the current money, But we must not he too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and unnost ages, since the chief virme of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need... | |
 | Natasha Sajé - 2004 - 84 pages
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 | Tijana Stojković - 2006 - 248 pages
...ancestors of that nicety of statement in English poetry, clearly supports the stable currency of words: "Custom is the most certain mistress of language,...be too frequent with the mint, every day coining" (Discoveries lines 2386—89). Across a few centuries, and after Valery, Philip Larkin writes in "Modesties":... | |
 | Margaret Tudeau-Clayton - 2006 - 284 pages
...translated from Quintilian -Jonson adds his own exhortation against the frequent coinage of new words - 'But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning' - and Quintilian's against persistent recourse to archaisms - 'Nor fetch words from the extreme... | |
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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,... 
