 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...avoid all harshness and severity of diction, he is therelore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...avoid all harshness and severity of diction, he is theretore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...avoid all harshness and seventy of diction ; he is therefore s metimes verbose in hi-j transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation • yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore something verbose in his transitions and connexions, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conyersation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...connections, and sometimes descends too jnuch to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...serei rit v of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and сов» nections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted,... | |
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It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been... 
