Classical Imaginary Conversations Greek Roman Modern
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By what we see, we might imagine that the one article is to be cast aside after as short a wear as the other. It occurs to me at this moment, that, when we have assumed the habili- ments of the vulgar, we are in danger of contracting their coarseness of language and demeanor.
Archdeacon Hare. Certainly the Romans were togati in their tongue as well as in their wardrobe. Purity and gravity of style were left uncontaminated and unshaken by the breath of Tiberius and his successor. The Antonines A...RCHDEACON HARE AND WALTER LANDOR 289 spoke better I^atin than the Triumvir Antonius ; and Mar- cus Aurelius, although on some occasions he preferred the Greek, was studious to maintain his own idiom strong and healthy. When the tongue is paralyzed, the limbs soon follow. No nation hath long survived the decrepitude of its language.
There is perpetually an accession of slang to our vernacu- lar, which is usually biennial or triennial.
Walter Landor. I have been either a fortunate or a pru- dent man to have escaped for so many years together to be "pitched into" among '* giant trees," "monster meetings," " GLORIOUS fruit, " " SPLENDID cigars, dogs, horses, and BRICKS," "palmy days," " RICH oddities " ; to owe nobody a farthing for any other fashionable habits of rude device and demi-saison texture ; and, above all, to have never come in at the " ELEVENTH hour, " which has been sound- ing all day long the whole year.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By what we see, we might imagine that the one article is to be cast aside after as short a wear as the other. It occurs to me at this moment, that, when we have assumed the habili- ments of the vulgar, we are in danger of contracting their coarseness of language and demeanor.
Archdeacon Hare. Certainly the Romans were togati in their tongue as well as in their wardrobe. Purity and gravity of style were left uncontaminated and unshaken by the breath of Tiberius and his successor. The Antonines A...RCHDEACON HARE AND WALTER LANDOR 289 spoke better I^atin than the Triumvir Antonius ; and Mar- cus Aurelius, although on some occasions he preferred the Greek, was studious to maintain his own idiom strong and healthy. When the tongue is paralyzed, the limbs soon follow. No nation hath long survived the decrepitude of its language.
There is perpetually an accession of slang to our vernacu- lar, which is usually biennial or triennial.
Walter Landor. I have been either a fortunate or a pru- dent man to have escaped for so many years together to be "pitched into" among '* giant trees," "monster meetings," " GLORIOUS fruit, " " SPLENDID cigars, dogs, horses, and BRICKS," "palmy days," " RICH oddities " ; to owe nobody a farthing for any other fashionable habits of rude device and demi-saison texture ; and, above all, to have never come in at the " ELEVENTH hour, " which has been sound- ing all day long the whole year.
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