 | 1857 - 574 pages
...disproportion of parts and features, cannot be ridiculed by an overcharged resemblance. His prefaces have not the formality of a settled style, in which...of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are nevei balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 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 were...first half of the sentence betrays the other. The pauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it... | |
 | 1861 - 584 pages
...almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his Patrons : but none of his Pn-fnoes were ever thought tedious. They have not the Formality...other The Clauses are never balanced, nor the Periods modell'd : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper Place. Nothing is cold... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...Milton's prose, though laboured, is equal to his sublimest verse, of Dryden's prose it has been said " every word seems to drop by chance though it falls...cold or languid, the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous, what is little is gay, what is great is splendid." Addison, Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter Scott,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 pages
...Johnson, in his life of Dryden, gives the following character of his pros* • ityle : ' His prefaces have not the formality of a settled style, in which...of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are nevr balancnd, DOC tK« Since his time, considerable attention has been paid to purity and elegance... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces were ever thonght tedious. They have not the formality of a settled...periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, thongh it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 pages
...Milton's prose, though laboured, is equal to his sublimest verse. Of Dryden's prose it has been said, " Every word seems to drop by chance though it falls...cold or languid, the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid." Addison, Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter Scott,... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pages
...never lay aside till we have finished, Dr Johnson has said, with equal force and beauty : " They hare not the formality of a settled style, in which the...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and 1 Shaksp?are has capricious, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue), figure, gallant, good graces... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
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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... 
