 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 sivua
...remotest depUn of time. ADDUON. The peruser of Swift will want very little previous knowledge : it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...required to mount elevations nor to explore profundities. JOHNSON. DERANGEMENT, INSANITY, LUNACY, MADNESS, MANIA. DERANGEMENT, from the verb to derange, implies... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sivua
...variegated by far-sought learning. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; and it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...explore profundities; his passage is always on a level, a long, solid ground, without asperities, without distinction." M. Taine says: "All Swift's talent... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 sivua
...his readers always understand him. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge, and it is sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...explore profundities. His passage is always on a level or by solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.— DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: Lives of the Poets.... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 sivua
...his readers always understand him. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge, and it is sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...explore profundities. His passage is always on a level or by solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.— DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: Lives of the Poets.... | |
 | 1888 - 576 sivua
...his readers always understand him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction. " This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 sivua
...satirists. " The peruser of Swift," says Dr. Johnson, " wants little previous knowledge; and it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...to mount elevations nor to explore profundities." For biography of Swift, see Forster's "Life of Swift." For criticisms, read Thackeray's "English Humorists;"... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 582 sivua
...his readers always understand him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.'*}1 The Drapier Letters were written in peculiarly familiar style, Whoever wishes to model... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 sivua
...his reader always understands him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...to explore profundities ; his passage is always on the level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction. This easy and safe conveyance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 sivua
...his reader always understands him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words...to explore profundities; his passage is always on the level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction. This easy and safe conveyance... | |
 | George Crabb - 1896 - 870 sivua
...want very little previous knowledge : it will be sufficient that he in acquainted with common wonls and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations nor to explore profuiuJUin. JOHNSON. DERANGEMENT, INSANITY, LUNACY, MAPNKSS, MANIA. DERANGEMENT, from the verb to... | |
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... the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge: it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things; he is neither required to mount elevations, nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level, along... 
