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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... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 420
by Samuel Johnson - 1783
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 1

Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...countrymen. — Editor of RUSSELL'S Book of Authors. Style. — 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,...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 1

Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...his countrymen. — Editor of RUSSELL'S Book of Authors. Style.— 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,...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 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.1 Whoever .wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 9

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1891 - 898 pages
...him was not official talent, but the splendor of his name as a poet. Notences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy ; and whoever wishes to attain an English style familiar but not coarse, A Manuscript of Addison....
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The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a ...

English language - 1888 - 576 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."t Dryden, Pope, and Atterbury, are generally reckoned among the number of graceful writers ;...
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English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage

John Earle - English language - 1890 - 612 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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied e done, or something to be avoided ; and in questions of simple unperplcxed easy.* Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 236 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,...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 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,...
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