Note 13 — Chapter II · THE THEORY OF POETICAL DICTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Edward Young, the author of “Night Thoughts,” was later to express this tersely enough: “Words tarnished, by passing through the mouths of the vulgar, are laid aside as inelegant and obsolete”—”Conjectures on Original Composition,” 1759 (“English Critical Essays,” Oxford, 1922, p. 320).