 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 strani
...who have succeeded him. His clauses are never balanced, nor his periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh... | |
 | 1888 - 576 strani
...who have succeeded him. His clauses are never balanced, nor his periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous : what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1889 - 38 strani
...Johnson, the follower of Dryden, thus delivers his estimate of Dryden's style, thereby marking his own : " Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated,...vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. . . . Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon 30... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled. Every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its • proper...vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. . . . Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too fre10 quently ; but, while he forces himself upon... | |
 | 1900 - 492 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 strani
...sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our... | |
 | 1900 - 570 strani
...who have succeeded him. His clauses are never balanced, nor his periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper...the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is tittle, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems... | |
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They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is... 
