| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 ;... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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