 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts-are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's...rounded, are voluble and easy.* Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and * [When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of. the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body,...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy'. ' Works, vii. 473. * When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison, in which he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body,...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy*. 1 Works, vii. 473. * When Johnson shewed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison, in which he... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he - T t 2 performed; performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever vi ishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coavse, and elegant but not ostentatious, give... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pagina’s
...Anglicism. 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...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pagina’s
...Anglicism. 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pagina’s
...attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid, and never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...imperceptible influence. Johnson writes ^^ like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an 41. academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 1 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pagina’s
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble,...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pagina’s
...Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic 3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences...r'ounded, are voluble and easy. "Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days... | |
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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 have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
