 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Liczba stron: 430
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 426
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 416
...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...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen in London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 434
...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor afiected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. IV. — Pleasure and Pain. — SPECTATOR. THERE were two families, which, from the begirtningof the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - Liczba stron: 442
...is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; lie is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English styk, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, mnst give his days and nights to the... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 398
...and he did not wish to be energetic; he is nfver rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences ha^e neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity) his...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes fo attain an Enarlish style, familiar b«t not coar«e, and ei<j«f:tn< but not ostentatious, mutt... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 422
...he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude noraffected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded,...and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familur but noi coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - Liczba stron: 398
...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...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. ' Whoever. wishes toattain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - Liczba stron: 580
...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...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - Liczba stron: 394
...is never J,ceble, and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. l •Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
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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 of Addison. 
