...adoption. " It had long seemed to me," he says, " that the great vice of American [modern English ?J writing and speaking, was a studied want of 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,...

...seeing my verses survive to pass beyond their nonage In choosing the Yankee dialect, l did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that...be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than m the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those...

...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...be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than ill the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those...

...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 the great vice of American writing and sjK'aking was a studied want of simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue...

...American writers are cultivating a style wholly wanting in this first best essential. He says : " It has long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and speaking is a studied want of simplicity.* Whether it be want of culture, for the highest outcome of culture...

...seeing my verses survive to pass beyond their nonage In choosing the Yankee dialect, l 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-tongoe as a dead langoage, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart,...

...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...be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than m the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among f , ly...

...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...our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its iiving sources among those who were, as Scottowe says of Major-General Gibbons, " divinely illiterate."...

...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-tongne as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart,...

...worthlessness of contemporary reputation, especially us In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that...speaking was a studied Want of simplicity, that we wwe ill danger of coming to look on our mother-tongne as a dead langnage, to be sought in the grammar...