 ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 157by Samuel Johnson - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...Add! son never deviates from his track to snatch a grace: he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries n* hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his tract to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. " It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
 | Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 176 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It seems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1866 - 932 pages
...pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitions ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His...is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. " It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor. 5. It was apparently his principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity of diction;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addisou never deviates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks.no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in xmexpected splendor. 5. It was apparently his principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity... | |
 | 1871 - 500 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never devi" ates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks no ambitious ornaments " and tries no hazardous innovations....always luminous, " but never blazes in unexpected splendour What he attempted " he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 498 pages
...he says : " It is pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; ... he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations...is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendor." Very numerous examples might be given»of sentences most of the words in which might be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
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