The Journal of Education for Ontario
Excerpt from The Journal of Education for Ontario
Why, on the other hand, do epithets and illustrations that to Dr. Johnson's ear debase a noble passage, accommodate themselves so easily to our modern taste l The dunnest smoke of hell, The keen knife, The blanket of the dark, expressions which alter nately wake his contempt, change his terror into aversion, and excite his risibility. Some words, indeed, are so obviously made for a state or tem er of the national mind, that when the temper changes the wor must go out of fashion or fall into contempt.
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