 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 lehte
...Anglicism. 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...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,119 must give his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 lehte
...Anglicism. 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...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 lehte
...of Johnson is characteristic and just : " He is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates ; his sentences...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | 1857 - 574 lehte
...Anglicism. 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...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 lehte
...Anglicism. 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...diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 492 lehte
...of Johnson is characteristic and just : " He is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates ; his sentences...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 480 lehte
...of Johnson is characteristic and just : " He is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates ; his sentences...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 486 lehte
...of Johnson is characteristic and just: " He is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates ; his sentences...though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy." It is, however, the colloquial tone, fusing these qualities into an harmonious whole, that renders... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 lehte
..." What he attempted, he performed ; ie is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic; he ¡3 l to him only by laziness and ac; ,,,.< justly !«•...to write it by the time appointed. Dodsley suggeste attain an English style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but not ostentatious, must give his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 lehte
...himself: " 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...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,... | |
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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 amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are... 
