 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is pever rapid, and" he never stagnates. His sentences. have neither studied... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...wish to be energetic: he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity. His periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English Style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
...wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...yet, if his language bad been less Idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted he performed ; 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism./ What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | George Canning - 1825 - 312 pages
...wish to be energetic : he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity. His periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...wish to be energetickp; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an I^nglish style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,, he performed : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...if if his language bad been less idiomatical, it might have lost Somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither stndied... | |
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What he attempted, he performed ; 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 brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
