 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 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 wiah to be energetic : he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 414 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...call it positively feeble. Let us remember the character of his style, as given by Johnson himself: " What he attempted he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to he energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...wish to be energetic; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied much leisure to be informed of Dr. Johnson's great merits by reading his works, he had a pa easy.4 Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 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, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...if his language had been less idiomatical, it might 35 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... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 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 - 1854 - 484 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 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." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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... | |
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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... 
