His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Microcosm. General index - Page 249by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille derenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without £lo\ving words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Millc babet ornatus, millcdecenterhabct. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not forma1, on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration;... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...of. parliament} though it be but ah ordinance 6 or a proclamation of the late literary monarch ; the words of Johnson himself deciding on Addison : ' His...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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...is the model of the middle style ; on gravo subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent...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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. " Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet." His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity, anci exact wiili6Ut r.ppr.rc"t elaboration ; always equable... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 510 pages
...She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing — " Milte habet ornatus, mille decenter habet^ His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave...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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 512 pages
...wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing — " Mille habet ornatus, tmlle decenter habet?"1 His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave...without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison nfiver deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...sometimes steps forth in the confidence of reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...sometimes steps forth in the confidence of reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. . His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave...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,... | |
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