 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...  Microcosm. General index - Page 249by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...page is 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;...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...idiomatical, it might 35 have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Dr.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though 40 not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic;...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pages
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,119 must give his days and nights to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days aud nights to the volumes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...Addison declared that Tillotson was his model. The description of Johnson is characteristic and just : " He is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...idiomatical it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
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