 ... powers. They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes...  Letters. Index - Страница 213по Jonathan Swift - 1801Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...they consist of ' proper words in proper places.'" As an historian Swift is entitled to little notice. The History of England is an abridgement, written... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 страници
...diction is correct, the numhers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-lahoured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...they consist of ' proper words in proper places.'" As an historian Swift is entitled to little notice. The History of England is an ahridgement, written... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...they consist of ' proper words in proper places.' " As an historian Swift is entitled to little notice. The History of England is an abridgement, written... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 страници
...the diction is correct, the numbers smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet ; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style — ' proper words in proper places.' " As an historian Swift is entitled to little notice : his History... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers »re smooth, and the rhymes exact There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...places." To divide this collection into classes, and show bow some pieces are gross and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 страници
...-verses. Perhaps the author himself chose to suppress them, 3> reflecting upon the Catholic clergy. expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style—they consist of ' proper words in proper places.'" As an historian Swift is entitled to little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured ISH POETS. COWLEY. THE Life- of COWLET, notwithstanding...of imagination and elegance of language have deser bow some pieces are gross and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 страници
...filled the world, or that there was no hope of more." Of the poetical works of Swift, Johnson remarks : '-To divide this collection into classes, and show...would be to tell the reader what he knows already, :md to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant, who certainly wrote often, not to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured . Blake Borne pieces are gross and some are trifling, would be to tell the reader what he knows already, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 страници
...diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression or a redundant epithet ; all his verses...they consist of " proper words in proper places." Todivide this collection into classes, and show bow some pieces are gross and some are trifling, would... | |
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