Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations We wonder what the author of the above diatribe at new words would have said, had he lived at the present day, when so many innovations are daily and daringly made upon our Queen's English - whether he would have locked up cir cumambulate; puffed fuliginous up the chimney; sent fatuous and fatuity to an asylum for idiots; dragged tenebrious and tenebrific, like Cacus, into daylight, and put them publicly to death; wrung ...
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations We wonder what the author of the above diatribe at new words would have said, had he lived at the present day, when so many innovations are daily and daringly made upon our Queen's English - whether he would have locked up cir cumambulate; puffed fuliginous up the chimney; sent fatuous and fatuity to an asylum for idiots; dragged tenebrious and tenebrific, like Cacus, into daylight, and put them publicly to death; wrung the neck Of irridescent; unsettled the equilibrium of stand-point; asked of a hun dred fountain-oceans ame-pictures star galaxies and bushy whiskered, yet fire-radiant tantalus-ixions, if they were not compounds of inspissated gloom, double-folded ugliness, and transcendent affectation and, in fine, with wry faces and closed eyes, consented to swallow subjective and Objec tive. Still Armstrong was too intelligent a man not to have admitted, were he living now, that while of late much that is barbarous and chaotic has been, violently carted into our tongue, much also that is strikingly expressive and philo Sophically accurate has been added; that many fine forgotten archaisms have been restored; and that now the British language, enriched by contributions from the French, the Italian, the German, the Scotch, and the Scandinavian, has become, more than at any former period, a thorough re ector of British thought, and a powerful and pliable instrument in the hand Of British genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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