 | Francis Armstrong Power - Bible - 1879 - 668 pages
...Johnson, in his life of Dryden, gives the following character of Dryden's prose style: — "His prefaces have not the formality of a settled style in which...is cold or languid. The whole is airy, animated and vigorous. What is little is gay. What is great is splendid. Though all is easy, yet nothing is feeble.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...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 pages
...essays, with the exception of his " Parallel between Poetry and Painting," are prefaces), " None of them were ever thought tedious. They have not the formality...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. . . . Though all is easy, nothing is feeble... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...can never lay aside till we have finished, Dr. Johnson has said with equal force and beauty, — " They have not the formality of a settled style, in...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pages
...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,...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ;... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...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,...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1890 - 612 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1890 - 552 pages
...unconstrained, and (according to Johnson's happy phrase) as if every word had fallen into its place by chance. None of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. They...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little is gay ; what is. great is splendid. — Life of Dryden. If a comparison... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost 20 all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons ; but none of his prefaces...cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pages
...essays, with the exception of his " Parallel between Poetry and Painting," are prefaces), " None of them were ever thought tedious. They have not the formality...cold or languid; the whole / is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. . . . Though all is easy, nothing is feeble;... | |
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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... 
