 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 428 páginas
...yet if his language had been lefs idiomatical, it might have loft fomewhat of its genuine Ariglicifm. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble,...be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never ftagnites. Mis fentences have neither ftudied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his peridds, though... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...call it positively feeble. Let us remember the character of his style, as given by Johnson himself: " What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 páginas
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic 3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 páginas
...yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic3 ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences hjive '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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 páginas
...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, must give his days and nights to the vo* lumes of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 510 páginas
...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 wisbei to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 páginas
...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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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... 
