 His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling, pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.  The lives of the English poets - Pągina 144per Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pągines
...dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet. His prose is the model ef the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without sciupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pągines
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style: on grave...scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equal, and always easy, without giving words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pągines
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style :. on '...scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equal, and always easy, without giving words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pągines
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave...apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always c*asy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pągines
...engaged much of his care. But his lines are very smooth in " Rosamond ", and too smooth in " Cato. " " His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling, pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pągines
...has thus judiciously discriminated the peculiarities and excellencies of our author's composition. " His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occa* Vide Essays Moral and Literary, first published, anonymously, I believe, in H77, N°28, and 106,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pągines
...has thus judiciously discriminated the peculiarities and excellencies of our author's composition. " His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occa* Vide Essays Moral and Literary, first published, anonymously, I believe, in 1777, N° 28, and... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 176 pągines
...Proclamation of the late literary Monarch. — The words of Johnson himself deciding on Addison. " His prose is the model of the Middle Style." " On grave subjects not formal ; on light occasions not groveling ; pure wkhout scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration. Always equable, and always... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pągines
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille decenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pągines
...reason. She wears a thousand dresses, and in all is pleasing. Mille habet ornatus, mille derenter habet. His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not groveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always... | |
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