 What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are...  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Sivu 111tekijä(t) Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 sivua
...performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to 6e energetic ; he is never rapid, and he neyer stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. THERE were two families, which from the beginning of the world, were as... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 sivua
...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor afiected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the begirtningof the... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 sivua
...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familur but noi coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the beginningof the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 sivua
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. J OHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 sivua
...in his transitions and connexions, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. POEMS OF JOSEPH ADDISON. TO MR. DRYDEN. How long, great poet! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder,... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 442 sivua
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 sivua
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another MS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. VI... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 sivua
...Anglicism^ What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick*; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. * But, says Dr. Warton, he sometimes is so ; and in another JMS. note, he adds, often so. C. VOL. vi... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 sivua
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; hi' is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exnggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 sivua
...energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied amplitude, por affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison*." Nothing can be more glaringly exaggerated than this praise. Addison is a writer eminently enervated;... | |
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