 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 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 ever thought tedious. They have not the fonnality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrnys the other. The pauses... | |
 | 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...thought tedious. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...defensive, occupie* almost all hie prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patron»; vigour, having the wh île body of his subjects to oppose. He settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The pauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...worth his notice, his works must be perused with very close attention. except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence hetrays the other. The clauses are never balanced,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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 ever thought tedious.162 They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 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 ever thought tedious.162 They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...Careless readers have a sort of dread of a preface. Yet of these prefaces Johnson has truly said, " None of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. 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,... | |
 | 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...thought tedious. 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,... | |
 | 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...thought tedious. 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,... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 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...thought tedious. 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,... | |
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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 ever thought tedious. 
