 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 394by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1861 - 584 pages
...never balanced, nor the Periods modell'd : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper Place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole...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... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...verse, of Dryden's prose it has been said " every word seems to drop by chance though it falls into its proper place, nothing is cold or languid, the whole...vigorous, what is little is gay, what is great is splendid." Addison, Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Southey, Moore, Macaulay, all attest the truth,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1866 - 654 pages
...no trouble about ; periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into it» proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated and vigorjus ; what is little is gHy, what is créât is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing in feeble;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, thongh it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thonght to mention himself too frequently ; but, while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...verse. Of Dryden's prose it has been said, " Every word seems to drop by chance though it falls into its proper place ; nothing is cold or languid, the whole...vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid." Addison, Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Southey, Moore, Macaulay, all attest the truth,... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...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 ; the whole...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, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...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 ; the whole is airy, animated, and 1 Shaksp?are has capricious, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue), figure, gallant, good graces... | |
 | Francis Armstrong Power - Bible - 1879 - 668 pages
...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. The whole...vigorous. What is little is gay. What is great is splendid. Though all is easy, yet nothing is feeble. Though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...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 ; the whole...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...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 ; the whole...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... | |
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