 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...connections, or abruptness in his transitions. Hip His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are nerer subtilised by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling...elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by far-sought learning. He pays no court to the passions; he excites neither surprise nor admiration;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 σελίδες
...in his transitions, i • His His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are never subtifued by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits,...elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by far-sought learning- He pays no court to the passions; he excites neither surprise nor.admiratio'n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 σελίδες
...much dilated or contracted." " His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are never subtilized by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits,...elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by far-sought learning " Of his duty as a Dean he was very observant. He managed the revenues of his church... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 σελίδες
...embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in bis transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts,...elevated by ambitious sentences, or variegated by far-sought learning. He pays no court to the passions ; he excites neither surprise nor admiration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 σελίδες
...to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts, which arc never subtilized by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits, elevated by ambitious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 σελίδες
...himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted ; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 σελίδες
...himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted ; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was'well suited to his thoughts, which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 σελίδες
...himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted ; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 σελίδες
...himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted ; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions. His style was well suited to his thoughts, which are... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 σελίδες
...himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated, or contracted ; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses,...abruptness in his transitions. " His style was well suited in his thoughts, which are never subtilized by nice disquisitions, decorated by sparkling conceits,... | |
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He studied purity ; and though, perhaps, all his strictures are not exact, yet it is not often that solecisms can be found ; and whoever depends on his authority may generally conclude himself safe. His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted... 
