 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...seeing my verses survive to pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that...simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother tongue as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart,... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...series of the 'Biglow Papers,' written thirty years after Prescott's first history, Lowell asserted "that the great vice of American writing and speaking"...grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart." Lowell went on to say that "it is only from its roots in the living generation that a language can... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...introduction to the second series of the 'Biglow Papers' Lowell told us that it had long seemed to him "that the great vice of American writing and speaking...simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look upon our mothertongue as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in... | |
 | 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...attention of the great mass of his contemporaries in a very telling way. Lowell had come to the conclusion that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a studied want oj simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look upon our mother-tongue as a dead language,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great viee of American writing and speaking was a studied want...dictionary rather than in the heart, and that our only chanee of escape was by seeking it at its livmg sourees among those who were, as Scottowe says of MajorGeneral... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...Biglow Papers, Second Series (Boston, 1867) ix—x: "In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that...writing and speaking was a studied want of simplicity . . . very few American writers or speakers wield their native language with the directness, precision,... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...Yankee dialect," Lowell writes in one of the many notes appended to the poems in Biglow, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that...sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in our heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources. Only in his... | |
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