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In 1649 Charles II. was living at the Hague, and it so happened that the man, who was in the highest repute in all Europe as a Latinist, was professor at the neighbouring university of Leyden. Salmasius was a man of enormous reading and no judgment. And his Latin was all the more readable because it was not classical or idiomatic.
Dale was determined to murder all of them; it was to be a fight to a finish that grim killing of an entire outfit, which, in the idiomatic phraseology of the cowpuncher, is called a "clean-up." Sanderson was aware of the disadvantage which must be faced, but there was no indication of fear or excitement in his manner.
What rendered this, besides, of such peculiar advantage to me in after life, as a literary man, was, that I heard them as often in the Irish language as in the English, if not oftener, in circumstance which enabled me in my writings to transfer the genius, the idiomatic peculiarity and conversational spirit of the one language into the other, precisely as the people themselves do in their dialogue, whenever the heart or imagination happens to be moved by the darker or better passions.
He seemed buried in deep thought; indeed, when we reached the door and I turned in, he walked a step or two farther on, as if not noticing to what place I had brought him. Then he drew himself up short, and gazed around him for a moment. "Ha, the Anglais," he said and I may mention in passing that his English, in spite of a slight southern accent, was idiomatic and excellent.
Lord R , preaching at the French Exhibition, implored his hearers to come and drink of the "eau de vie;" and a good-natured Cockney, complaining of the incivility of French drivers, said, "It is so uncalled for, because I always try to make things pleasant by beginning with 'Bon jour, Cochon." Even in our own tongue Englishmen sometimes come to grief over an idiomatic proverb.
They crossed a broad street which seemed the metropolis of the district; it flamed with gin-palaces; a multitude were sauntering in the mild though tainted air; bargaining, blaspheming, drinking, wrangling: and varying their business and their potations, their fierce strife and their impious irreverence, with flashes of rich humour, gleams of native wit, and racy phrases of idiomatic slang.
He was stunned by the fall, and were it not for Captain Courtenay's custom of having all hatches taken off and a thorough examination of the cargo made before the holds are finally battened down for the voyage, Frascuelo might now be in a tight place in more than one sense." Dr. Christobal was proud of his idiomatic English. He spoke the language with the careless freedom of a Londoner.
The tone should not be pitched high; it should be idiomatic and rather in the conversational key; the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire poem should be marked by tasteful moderation, high finish and completeness; for however trivial the subject-matter may be indeed, rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination to the rules of composition and perfection of execution should be strictly enforced.
Such a tendency, however, is directly opposed to the true feeling for idiomatic English. It destroys the sense of security, the assurance of perfect congruity between thought and expression, which the unliterary and unacademic speaker and writer often has, and which, with both literary and unliterary, is the basis for all expressive use of language'.
"Built this house?" "Oh, no a house where this stands. The old house was burnt down in '95." "As recently as that?" she exclaimed in surprise. "1795," he explained, "and this house was run up then." Mina felt that there was here a touch of pride; with a more complete mastery of idiomatic English she might have called it "swagger."
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