"Philologer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... words and phrases, is an innovation, which, with the opulence of our present language, the English philologer is most jealous to allow; but we have puritans or precisians of English, superstitiously nice! The fantastic coinage of affectation or caprice will cease to circulate from its own alloy; but shall we reject the ore of fine workmanship and solid weight? There is no government mint of ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
