 | Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 pages
...rather than in the world." They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of a sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never...cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what Is little, is gay; what ia great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 264 pages
...pondering than anything I could say : Dryden's prefaces " have not the formality of a settled style. . . . The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay ; what is great is splendid. . . . Everything is excused by the play... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 402 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 402 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, 1 in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the... | |
 | English language - 1911 - 20 pages
...pondering than anything I could say : Dryden's prefaces ' have not the formality of a settled style. . . . The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay ; what is great is splendid. . . . Everything is excused by the play... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...it—also peers intensely and long enough to perceive that Dryden's prose, in contrast to his own, has "not the formality of a settled style, in which the...is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated and vigorous: what is little is gay; what is great is splendid." "He that reads many books," Johnson says... | |
 | James Boyd White - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 348 pages
...Dryden's style, particularly in the prefaces to his plays, in a way that imitates what he describes: "They have not the formality of a settled style, in...by chance, though it falls into its proper place." Samuel Johnson, "Life of Dryden," in Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose, 3d ed., edited by BH Bronson... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...paradoxical qualities that define the essence of all Dryden's writing for Johnson, both prose and verse: none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. They...periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, 181 though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated,... | |
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They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is... 
