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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,...

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 422
by George Burnett - 1807
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The Heirs of Donne and Jonson

Joseph Holmes Summers - Business & Economics - 1970 - 208 pages

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Public Voices: Literature and Politics with Special Reference to the ...

Lionel Charles Knights - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 146 pages

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Prose Style: A Historical Approach Through Studies

James R. Bennett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1972 - 304 pages

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The Economy of Literature

Marc Shell - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 196 pages

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Aspects of Literature

Visvanath Chatterjee - English literature - 1978 - 208 pages

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Reading, writing, and rhetoric

James Burl Hogins, Robert E. Yarber - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1979 - 558 pages

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The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: The age of Shakespeare

Boris Ford - English literature - 1982 - 590 pages

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Milton and the Postmodern

Herman Rapaport - Experimental poetry, English - 1983 - 296 pages

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Power in Verse: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Renaissance Lyric

Jane Hedley - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 222 pages

...the Elizabethan poets, is "customary." "Custom," he explains (again making direct use of Quintilian), "is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money."22 The coinage analogy suggests that by "custom" he would be understood to mean not only "common...

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Ben Jonson: His Craft and Art, Volume 2

Rosalind Miles - 1990 - 303 pages

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