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| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always Equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harmnefs and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...fcriapulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, with-. out glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his track to (hatch a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentenccs. Addifon never deviates from his track to fnatcli a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs and... | |
| 1795 - 846 pages
...the fame judicious and claffical critic, " never deviates from his track to fnatch agrace; he fecks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. His fentences have neither ftudied am. - ,-i.ii, nor afieâed brevity... | |
| Biography - 1793 - 412 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration : always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon...innovations, His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. It feerns to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harlhnefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his track to match a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviated from his track to match a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpedted Iplendour. " It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harflmefs... | |
| Biography - 1798 - 666 pages
...and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his crack to fnatch a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments,...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs... | |
| History - 1800 - 624 pages
...elaboration ; always equable, and always eaiy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon ne ver deviates from his track to fnatch a grace ; he feeks...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. u'ït feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harflinefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fen'tences. Addifon...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs and... | |
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