 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 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 1 When Johnson showed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 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 l. Whoever wishes to attain an 1 When Johnson showed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 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 1. Whoever wishes to attain an 1 When Johnson showed me a proof-sheet of the character of Addison,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 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 an opinion gaming ground, not much to the advantage of Mr. Addison's style,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied ot one of the after being at considerable pains to study the subject, he wrote three several easy '. Whoever wishes to an opinion gaining ground, not much to the advantage of Mr. Addison's style,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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.(i) Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...wiah 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 tu attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 414 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...wish to he 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 an opinion gaining ground, not much to the advantage of Mr. Addison's style,... | |
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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... 
