 | Amos Bronson Alcott - Authors, American - 1872 - 300 pages
...as the Hebrew, nor as learned as the Greek, yet it is as fluent as the Latin, as courteous as tlio Spanish, as court-like as the French, and as amorous as the Italian ; so that being beautified and enriched out of these tongues, partly by enfranchising and endenizing... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...and copious source of the English language. BOSWORTH. Our English tongue is, I will not say as sncred as the Hebrew, or as learned as the Greek, but as...courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian. CAMDEN : Remains. Such patching maketh Littleton's hotchpot of our tongue, and, in effect, brings the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...ought to study the AngloSaxon as the immediate and copious source of the English language. BoswoRTH. uld be br CAM DEN : Remains. Such patching maketh Littleton's hotchpot of our tongue, and, in effect, brings... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1909 - 612 pages
...precept and by example they did honour to their native tongue. ' Our English tongue,' said Camden, ' is as fluent as the Latin, as courteous as the Spanish,...Court-like as the French, and as amorous as the Italian.' Camden praised by precept alone, and composed all his works, save one, in Latin. The other chroniclers,... | |
 | Charles Whibley - English literature - 1919 - 594 pages
...precept and by example they did honour to their native speech. ' Our English tongue,' said Camden, ' is as fluent as the Latin, as courteous as the Spanish,...Court-like as the French, and as amorous as the Italian.' Camden praised by precept alone, and composed all his works, save one, in Latin. The other chroniclers,... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 490 pages
...precept and by example they did honour to their native tongue. 'Our English tongue,' said Camden, 'is as fluent as the Latin, as courteous as the Spanish,...Court-like as the French, and as amorous as the Italian.' Camden praised by precept alone, and composed all his works, save one, in Latin. The other chroniclers,... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...(I will not say as sacred as the Hebrew, or as learned as the Greeke,) but as fluent as the Latine, as courteous as the Spanish, as courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian, as some Italianated amorous have confessed. Neither hath any thing detracted more from the dignitie... | |
 | Graham Smith - History - 1998 - 312 pages
...(I will not say as sacred as the Hebrew, or as learned as the Greeke,) but as fluent as the Latine, as courteous as the Spanish, as courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian.' Needless to say, here and in many other such characterisations the conventionally acknowledged qualities... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...(I will not say as sacred as the Hebrew, or as learned as the Greeke,) but as fluent as the Latine, as courteous as the Spanish, as courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian, as some Italianated amorous have confessed. William Camden, 1605, The Languages', in Remoines Concerning... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 244 pages
...(I will not say as sacred as the Hebrew, or as learned as the Greeke,) but as fluent as the Latine, as courteous as the Spanish, as courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian . . . Neither hath any thing detracted more from the dignitie of our tongue, than our own affectation... | |
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Greeke,) but as fluent as the Latine, as courteous as the Spanish, as courtlike as the French, and as amorous as the Italian, as some Italianated amorous have confessed. 
