 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - Liczba stron: 358
...credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument...thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. " Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet." His prose is tne model of the middle style ; on grave subjects... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - Liczba stron: 512
...had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. ... All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument...care of pleasing the author of his being. . . . Truth wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing." Works, vii. 451, 472. 5 ' As it has been my principal... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - Liczba stron: 234
...nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being. . . . " Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - Liczba stron: 318
...nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither danger- 25 ously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument...Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision, some- 30 times appears half-veiled in an allegory ; sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - Liczba stron: 206
...credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument,...reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the authour of his being. Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision; sometimes appears half-... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1907 - Liczba stron: 142
...credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - Liczba stron: 562
...author of his being. Truth is shown sometimes as the phantom of a vision; sometimes appears half -veiled in an allegory : sometimes attracts regard in the...wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. 5 Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habct. His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1910 - Liczba stron: 656
...enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his 15 real interest, the care of pleasing the author of...half-veiled in an allegory; sometimes attracts regard in the 20 robes of fancy; and sometimes steps forth in the confidence of reason. She wears a thousand dresses,... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - Liczba stron: 268
...credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument...interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being " (Life of Addison, sub fin.). The last is Johnson's own phrase ; Addison commonly speaks of God as... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - Liczba stron: 754
...credulous nor wantonly skeptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument,...sometimes as the phantom of a vision, sometimes appears half veiled in an allegory, sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy, and sometimes steps forth... | |
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His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument,... 
