 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...terror, will produce some perturbation of images, and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting...their language .in the transports of anger, to the turgid vehemence of tragedy, the epistolary writer may likewise, without censure, comply with the varieties... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 334 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 in the transports of anger to the turgid vehemence of tragedy, the epistolary writer may likewise without censure comply with the varieties... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of phrase. Wherever we are studious to please, weare afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour...raise their language in the transports of anger to the turgid vehemence of tragedy, the epistolary writer may likewise without censure comply with the varieties... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
