| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...flowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never eviates from his track to snatch a grace : he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
| George Canning - 1825 - 312 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. 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, but never blazes with unexpected splendour; if his language had been less idiomatical (this is his adoption of vulgar... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 páginas
...sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious orna^ ments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 páginas
...pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his tntr.k to snatch a grace : he seeks no amhitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but oever blazes in unexpected splendour. • Far, in Dr. Wartop's opimop, beyond Dryden.— C. It was... | |
| 1838 - 1056 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addiaon never deviates from his track to match a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fpHtndouT. It seems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Atldison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
| Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 414 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently .his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction.... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....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;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations....is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction... | |
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