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Johnson was to rally against the visual logic of the doctrine of
the dramatic unities.
The reduction of the tactile qualities of life and language
constitute the refinement sought in the Renaissance and
repudiated now in the electronic age.
* A major theme of the passionate vernacular nationalists
brings us to the effect of print in swiftly depriving language of
many of its tactile qualities. Until the nineteenth century there
was a common boast of “refinement” of the English tongue
that had occurred since the sixteenth century. In the sixteenth
century there was still plenty of brogue and dialect to confer
tactility and resonance. Even by 1577 Holinshed could feel
happy about the gradual refinement between the language of
the Saxons and the relative perfection of his own time. The old