 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 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 1 Shakspeare has capricious, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue], Jigwe, gallant, good graces ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 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 1 Shakspeare has capridous, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue), figure, gallant, good graces ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occuj almost all his prose, except those pages whi he haa deroted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces were ever...not the formality of a settled style, in which the fir&t half of the sentence betrays the other. The pauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...the formality of a settled style, in which the first haK of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...sentence betrays the other. The pauses axe never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word scorns Petrarch, from whom ! vigorous; what is little, is gay ; what is great, \ is splendid. He may be thought to mention I himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...fonnality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrnys the other. The pauses arc never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and rigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...of a settled style, in which the first half of tin tentence betrays the other. The clauses are novcr balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous 3 what is little, is gay ; what is groat, is splendid. Though all is easy, nolhmg is feeble... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...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 - 1840 - 742 pages
...all his prose, except those pages which he haï devot e J to his patrons ; but none of his preface« solicitation, to rescue Pope from the talons of Crotisaz,...imputation of favouring fatality, or rejecting revelat pauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 pages
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modeiled ; every word seema to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little, u gay ; what ia great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble... | |
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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... 
