 ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 2051800Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 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 -. ifnatch a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1803 - 266 pages
...always eafy, without glowing words or pointed leniences. Addifon never deviates from his track to fnatth 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 endeavqur... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...giving words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It seems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch 'a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal- endeavour Jo avoid all harshness and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. " It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. " It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviated from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. " It seems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 176 pages
...pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no amhitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous ; but never blazes with unexpected splendor ; — if his language had been less idiomatical (this is his adoption... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...deviates from his track * Far, in Di. Warton's opinion, beyond Dryden. C. to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and... | |
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