 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1911 - 552 стор.
...style. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modeled; every word seems to drop by chance, tho it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or...what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Tho all is easy, nothing... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1928 - 760 стор.
...fluent to grow tedious. Samuel Johnson never wrote juster criticism than this: "Nothing is cold and 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 ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh. '... | |
 | 1911 - 20 стор.
...I could say : Dryden's prefaces ' have not the formality of a settled style. . . . The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word...what is little is gay ; what is great is splendid. . . . Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 стор.
...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...is little is gay; what is great is splendid." "He that reads many books," Johnson says in his "Life of Pope," "must compare one opinion or one style... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1994 - 348 стор.
...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...by chance, though it falls into its proper place." Samuel Johnson, "Life of Dryden," in Rasselas, Poems, and Selected Prose, 3d ed., edited by BH Bronson... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 стор.
...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, 181 though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated,... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 стор.
...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...what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. 13 Johnson is clearly disturbed by Dryden's self-criticism, but not inevitably and not consistently.... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 390 стор.
...publication of the first edition, Fit2Gerald approvingK quoted Jobnson's estimate of Deyden's style: 'every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper Place' (EF('l., II. 426l. This quatrain works according to a similar combination of contingency and design,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1911 - 564 стор.
...style. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modeled; every word seems to drop by chance, tho it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or...what is little is gay; what is great is splendid. Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Tho all is easy, nothing... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 стор.
...about Dryden whether as prose-writer or poet than Johnson did in his Life. The clauses [Tie saysj are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word...into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; die whole is airy, animated, and vigorous. . . . Everything is excused by the play of images and the... | |
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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. 
