The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-06

rendillon' for performance. "cnac. nI.nl',
Tor acting, "dccirnate" Tor Trimmed. or
hdue IoF naked More offensive than
ANY oil these grdntIose words is "inioxIctt.
| ed in place OF drunk, wnch il has nearly
| bdnishcd man can be tntox Gated ootv
when he has lost hts wits, not Nv ou.niiiv.
Dat by qnaI'ty, by drinking liquor thai has
been dragged. ''Ini oxicated. :" bowevar
has i've sytlables; drunk has huI one: sn .hs
former carries the day ny live 10 one M
doubt. nine-trnthS Of ,hose who drink 10 ~.
cess III this country, are, ~ fact, intoxicaf ed:
still, the two words should not be- confonnd-
! ed.
Solomon tells us that there is nothing
new under the sun; and this itching for
pompous forms 6f expression this contempt
'or p!ai:ne>s and simplicity Of yte--s rs old
as Aristotle. In the third book oil h. Rnri ORIG,
discussing the causes ot frig d,iy ct S,yie, ha
speaks OF one Aicimndas, writer ri that
time as "rmpl nyiug ornaments I.ot as SEAS
on'ngs 10 discourse buL as If they were ihe
enly TODD 10 i've upon. He does not say
sweat bnt the humid sweat , a man .oes
uot TO The Isthmian games bnt 10 The COLI
iec'ed assembly OF he Isthnian Splemuity:
laws are the legitimate kings o common.
wcaitn>;' and race, Che incursive inipu 40
"i the sou.' A rich man is not hountitu,.
hu' he 'arlificer ct universal largrss " Is
mt not curious that oar modern re.lnprs &c
language, who often pride themselves upon
their taste tor swol ing words and pn,A-rs,
and their xkiii "A II ham he
been anticipated by Alcidamts 2 900 years
ag,!
Fne abuse of tn" Queens English t. which
VT have called attention did not begin with
AMERICANS IL began win our trans ATTAIN
Tie cousins, who employed ink horn -
terms and on laDdsh pnraaee Al very early
period In Harrison'S Chronicle We ar3 tod
hat alter the Norman CouQueoL "tbe Eng-
nsh tongue grew into eurn contempt ab
Coar; that most men called it 10 small dss-
honor 10 speak euy Engioh there; winch
bravery took his hoiC at the las likewise in
the country with every pl"~ma'., hat even
he very carriers began 10 wax weary ri their
iother-l ougue, and labored ~ spruk FreCcn,
wbich was then counted no email token "f
gen,i:ity." We are all familiar with Dr..
Jnhnson's tOndness for words OF learned
length ara thurdering sound "rhe great
eXicOgrap hrr," as the fine writer's call hIm,
bad dlalec' OF his own. which has been
whiting y styled J0hnsonese G"Idsmith hlt
hun in a vulnerable spot when he said
- O0csOr, II you were o write fable about
litLlr fishes you would make them talk IKE
wbaies" And yet Que day when The Doc
tor ook up IA new translation OF The fsla-
menC. ard in place OF the words Jesus
wept," so touching In their sim pllcity, read
Jesus, the Saviour Of the world, overcome
with grlct, huLsL into faod OF tears " he
threw down The hook in a great rage, eX-
claiming Z" Puppy!' aud, had the author
cen present, w"u d probably have thrown
he book at his head Our readers need not
he told how much Carlyle has done 10 Feu-
tonne our language with his ''yardiongi"i-
ed " Gvrmau compounds. L. was just
stroke OF CRITICISM when New York anc-
lloueer introduced h miscellaneous tOt OF
books to q crowd wl:h the remark ; " Gene
ernen, OF this lor | need only say SIX vo'-
umcs are py Thomas Cariyir; the seventh q
written in the English language" Some
years ago, learned Doctor OF Divinity and
University Professor in Canada wrote a work
in which, wishing 10 state .he slmpie bet
that the rude Indian" had learned the use
OF firing, he delivered himself as follows:
"He had m.de slave OF the heaven-born
elements, the brother of the lightning, t he
grand aieheWist aud arifcer OF all times,
though as yet he knew not all Ike worth or
magical power that was in him. By his
means the sturdy oak, which dung abroad lis
Stalwart arms and waved lis lcaiy nonors
defiant in the forest, was made to bow TO the
behest Of the simple ahorignes. >
Shade of Pop Emmons! what IAN "w'n'
sch o. wordsr' To such writer We would
saw as Falstaff said to Pistol: "1f thou hast
any tidings, prthee deliver them like . man
Of this world % A similar request we w"nid
make to writers like Harrison Airswor'h'
With whom dogs iail is always his eau
dial appendage,'' and 6 fsh-pond u p'scl"e
preserve" When shall We learn That ne Sc
cret of beauty and of force in speaking ana
writing is not to say simple things dneiy, ouf
10 Say fus things as simply as possible?
Fitz-Greene Halleck tells us that some years
ago a letter fell into mis- hands which
Scotch servant-gir had written TO her lo'ef'
The style charmed him; and his literary
friends agreed that his style was fairly ln'n-
liable. Anxious to clear up the hysVeFS 81
It's beauty, and even eleg nee ne Se"F0"e"
for the author, who thus solved the en'@m"
Sir, came to this country four years ago.
Then | did not know how to read or write.
! R,t since then I have learned how to read
vat lear how n