It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which ...is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present... Our Alexandrian revels: Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »