 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...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 cold or languid : ten occurs in Shakspeare, both as a substantive and verb. And many other of the above words may be... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...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 cold or languid ; ten occurs in Shakspeare, both as a substantive and verb. And many other of the above words may be... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...halanced, nor the periods moduli'ed ; every word seems to drop hy chanee, though it falls into its pnilier place. Nothing is cold or languid, the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is liule, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feehle ; though all *eems... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...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...vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...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...vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...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...vigorous; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...gives himself no tiouble about ; periods modelled ; every word seems to drop bv chance, though it fulls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid...whole is airy, animated and vigorous ; what is little >- gay, what is great is splendid. Though all \s easy, nothing' is feeble; though all seems careless,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...himself no tiouble about; periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into iti proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole...and vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great a splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing- harsh;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...sentence betrays the other. The pauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but, while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...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...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and 1 Shakspeare has capricious, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue], Jigwe, gallant, good graces ;... | |
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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... 
