 | Letter writing - 1803 - 268 pages
...terror will produce some perturbation of images, and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wliereever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...raise their language in the transports of anger to the turbid vehemence of tragedy, the C3 O ]|- • 1 ° epistolary writer mav likewise, without censure,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 354 pages
...terrour, will produce some perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...method, and elegance of style. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Horace to raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...terror, will produce some perturbation of images, and some figurative distortions of phrase. Whereever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style. scantiness and imperfection become evident. Letters are written to the great a:nd to the mean, to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...terrour, will produce some perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of praise. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...method, and elegance of style. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Horace, to raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 370 pages
...opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Horace to raise their language...transports of anger to the turgid vehemence of tragedy, the epistolatory writer may likewise without censure comply with the varieties of his matter. If great... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...expression ; whatever fills us with hope or terror, will produce some perturbation of images. Wherever we are studious to please, .we are afraid of trusting...ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.— -The epistolary writer may, without censure, comply with the varieties of his matter. If great events... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...expression ; whatever fills us with hope or terror, will produce some perturbation of images. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.—The epistolary writer may, without censure, comply with the varieties of his matter. If great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...terrour, will produce some perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...method, and elegance of style. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Horace to raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...produce some perturbation of images. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting oar first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion...ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.— The epistolary writer may, without censure, comply with the varieties of his matter. If great events... | |
 | Letter writing - 1818 - 254 pages
...terrour will produce some perturbation of images, and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...method, and elegance of style. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Hora.ce to raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid... | |
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Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style. 
