"Written language" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... effectual check to this process, a process sometimes barbarizing and defacing, however it may be the only one which will make the newly brought in entirely homogeneous with the old and already existing, is imposed by the existence of a much written language and a full formed literature. The foreign word, being once adopted into these, can no longer undergo a thorough transformation. For the most part the utmost which use and familiarity can do with it now, is to cause the gradual dropping of the foreign termination. ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... opening of its folds that signifies reluctant forgiveness; in short, the language of the fan in the hand of a Cuban lady is a wonderfully adroit and expressive pantomime that requires no interpreter, for, like the Chinese written language, ...
— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou
... done after the eclipse that followed the Albigensian war. For a long time the linguistic and literary aspect of all this activity was the only one that attracted any attention in the rest of France or in Provence itself. Not that the Provencal language had ever quite died out even as a written language. Since the days of the Troubadours there had been a continuous succession of writers in the various dialects of southern France, but very few of them were men of power and talent. Among the immediate predecessors of the Felibres ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... The written language of Saturn resembles the Chinese character language, only it is much more ...
— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris
... again broke in, "where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
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