 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were...by chance, though it falls into its proper place. 1 Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...by chance, though it falls into its proper place. 5 Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ;... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.5 Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.5 Nothing is " cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...fentence betrays the other. The daufes are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word fcems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is fplendid. He may be thought to mention himfelf... | |
 | David Irving - 1803 - 266 pages
...who have come after him. His elaafes arc never balanced,, nor his periods modeled i. every word feemg to drop by chance, though it falls into; its proper...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ;. what is little, is gay ;, what is gre.xt, is iplendid. Though all is eafy, nothmg is feeble... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he had devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...have not the formality of a settled style in which rhe first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...Dr. Johnson, in his life of Dryden, gives the following character of his prose Style : " His prefaces have not the formality of a settled Style, in which...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...we can never lay aside till we have finished, Dr Johnson has said with equal force and beauty, — " They have not the formality of a settled style, in...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...first half of the sentence betrays the other. The causes are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, Chough it... | |
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They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is... 
