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" Hence he is ever in buskins ; and dressed out with magnificent elegance. In every sentence, we see the marks of labour and art ; nothing of that ease which expresses a sentiment coming natural and warm from the heart. "
General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent ... - Page 134
by John Aikin - 1802
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 68

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1783 - 682 pages
...is its capital fault. His Lordfaip can exprefs nothing with Simplicity. He Teems to have confidered it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in buQcinc ; full of ciicumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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Annual Register, Volume 26

Edmund Burke - History - 1785 - 652 pages
...is its capital fault. His lordfhip can expreis nothing with fimplicity. He feems to have confidered it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in buíkiíis ; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...is its capital fault. His iordfhip can exprefs nothing with Simplicity. He feems to have coniidcrcd it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in bufîcins ; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...is its capital fault. Hij lordihip can exprefs nothing with Simplicity. He feems to have confulercd it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in bufkins; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 26

History - 1800 - 608 pages
...is its capital fault. His lordlhip can exprefs nothing with fimplicity. He leems to have conlidered it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in bnikins ; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1800 - 632 pages
...is its capital fault. His lordlhip can exprefs nothing with fimplicity. He leems to have confidered it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality, to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in buikins ; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...have a remarkable instance in our language. Lord Shaftesbury, though an author of considerable merit, can express nothing with simplicity. He seems to have...it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of fashion, to speak like other men. Hence he is perpetually in buskins, replete with circumlocutions...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2

Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...is its capital fault. His lordfliip can exprefs nothing with fimplicity. He feems to have confidered it as vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality , to fpeak like other men. Hence he is ever in buikins; full of circumlocutions and artificial elegance....
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...highly admired. It is greatly hurt, however, by perpetual stiffness and affectation. This is its capital fault. His lordship can express nothing with Simplicity....dignity of a man of quality to speak like other men. Henc? he is ever in buskins ; full of circumlocutions and artifscial elegance. In every sentence, we...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...an author of considerable merit, he expresses nothing with simplicity. He seems to have thought it vulgar, and beneath the dignity of a man of quality,...and artificial elegance. In every sentence we see marks of labour and art ; nothing of that ease which expresses a sentiment coming natural and warm...
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