 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 페이지
...no trouble about ; periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into it» proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated and vigorjus ; what is little is gHy, what is créât is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing in feeble;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 페이지
...his prefaces were ever thonght tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The...periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, thongh it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 페이지
...Milton's prose, though laboured, is equal to his sublimest verse. Of Dryden's prose it has been said, " Every word seems to drop by chance though it falls...what is little is gay, what is great is splendid." Addison, Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Southey, Moore, Macaulay, all attest the truth, that the imagination... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 페이지
...said, with equal force and beauty : " They hare not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and 1 Shaksp?are has capricious, conversation, fatigate (if not fatigue), figure, gallant, good graces... | |
 | Francis Armstrong Power - 1879 - 668 페이지
...character of Dryden's prose style: — "His prefaces have not the formality of a settled style in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The...What is little is gay. What is great is splendid. Though all is easy, yet nothing is feeble. Though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh. And,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 페이지
...his prefaces were ever thought tedious. 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 ; eveiy word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 페이지
...None of them were ever thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The...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; and... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 페이지
...never been surpassed by any of those who have succeeded him. His clauses are never balanced, nor his periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance,...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 ; and though,... | |
 | 1888 - 576 페이지
...have rarely been surpassed by those who have succeeded him. His clauses are never balanced, nor his periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance,...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 ; and though... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1889 - 38 페이지
...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,...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 ; and... | |
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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. 
